Little known facts about Abraham Lincoln
, Abraham Lincoln was 6 feet 4 inches tall, at a time when most men in the United States were about 5 feet 6 inches. His size 14 shoes had to be custom…
Category: Seasonal
Keep your feet warm; avoid a cold
A number of studies show that feeling generally cold outside or indoors will not cause a cold. Having cold feet, however, can make you more likely to get…
January is National Blood Donor Month: Blood banks begin search for donors
For children, January is a month for sledding and building snowmen. For blood banks it is a time of searching. With snowstorms, holidays, increased…
Healthier turkey sandwich
If you’ve added a few extra pounds over the holidays, you may want to cut calories and preserve the taste of foods at the same time. When it comes to a…
Headaches linked to inactivity
Norwegian surveys of more than 68,000 people show that being sedentary may increase the risk of developing frequent headaches. Over an 11-year period,…
It’s the All-American food: Cook your hamburger thoroughly
As you slide the spatula under that hamburger, you might be thinking about that great sandwich. You might be more concerned about something else: E. coli…
Welcoming the New Year with the bubbly
It is said that about 1680 in a French monastery Dom Perignon made a great discovery. He called to his fellow monks, “Come quickly! I am drinking stars!”…
Happy New Year (whenever it might be)
The new year begins on January 1 — or does it? Let’s back up to early spring in 1750, when winter frost and ice were giving way to new growth and longer…
Confetti has come a long way in 120 years
When the first confetti was made is still a mystery, but we know it was already a big deal in 1905. Police ordered its sale stopped and bars closed when…
Dreaming of candles on the tree? Try a virtual tree instead
Candles on Christmas trees went out of vogue more than a century ago, and good riddance — open flames balanced on increasingly dry evergreen branches is…