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(Last Updated On: March 21, 2023) NATIONAL SOMETHING ON A STICK DAY Observed each year on March 28th, National Something on a Stick Day is a food holiday that lets you use your creative talents. Once you get started, the possibilities are endless. Foods that come on a stick are fun and easy to eat. #SomethingOnAStickDay There isn’t much that can’t be put on a stick when talking about food. Soup might be that one exception, though if it were flavorful frozen, we might make an exception. From cool summer treats like the Popsicle to frozen food staples like the...

Walking past the countless photos of Holocaust survivors and victims at Warsaw’s POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in 2016, New York-native Daniel Patt was haunted by the possibility that he was passing the faces of his own relatives without even knowing it. For Patt, a 40-year-old software engineer now working for Google, that sort of conundrum presented the potential for a creative solution. And so he set to work creating and developing From Numbers to Names (N2N), an artificial intelligence-driven facial recognition platform that can scan through photos from prewar Europe and the Holocaust, linking them to...

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Haaland, 60, was speaking about being the first Native American woman to hold the position when the funnyman host spotted a guy in a suit on all fours. “Considering I was sworn in by the very first female vice president, also a woman of color, that was really probably the best par —” Haaland said before Meyers cut her off. “I am sorry, Secretary. I am going to interrupt you real quick,” Meyers said as the staffer sneakily ducked behind a desk and out of the frame. “You have a staffer who fully crawled on the carpet behind you —...

Late one spring evening quite a few years ago, my teenage daughter and I peered out the door to enjoy the cool of the spring night. In the glow of the porch light we saw something in the bush out by the door so we shone a flashlight on it. In the bright beam of the flashlight, many glistening pairs of eyes glowed . We decided the eyes belonged to insects of some sort and the effect of the many red dots of reflected light was rather mesmerizing. But then one of them left the bush and flew towards the...

A reminder that one word in the English language that can be a noun, verb, adjective, adverb and preposition. UP Read until the end ... you'll laugh. This two-letter word in English has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that word is 'UP.' It is listed in the dictionary as an [adv.], [prep.], [adj.], [n] or [v]. It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP? At a meeting, why does a topic come UP? Why do we speak...

Last week my husband went out to our back woods to cut down some dead trees to get firewood for use next year, and while he was in the woods working I sat in a folding chair at the edge of the woodlot. Suddenly an animal fell out of a tree just in front of me and landed with a thud! It laid there stunned or dead. Cautiously I went over to check on it. I was going to give a full poor baby a funeral. As I approached, I noticed it was a porcupine! It popped up, and started...

Anderson Cooper abruptly cut to commercial during an interview with columnist E. Jean Carroll after she claimed most people find rape "sexy." "I think most people think of rape as being sexy," Carroll said in an interview Monday with CNN's Anderson Cooper, during a discussion of her rape allegation against President Trump. "They think of the fantasies." Cooper quickly cut in and said they would take a quick break. "You're fascinating to talk to," Carroll quipped.

In his youth, King David proved his heroism by slaying a lion. He went on to put his life on the line for the Jewish People and become a hero for all Israel. Three thousand years later, another lion-hearted lion-slayer also put his life on the line for the Jewish People and became a hero for all Israel. He wasn’t even Jewish, but he was one of the greatest friends and supporters that the Jewish People ever had - and his experiences with lions assisted in numerous ways.Colonel John Patterson was an Irish soldier and engineer assigned to Kenya by...

Leonard Nimoy, one of Star Trek’s most memorable actors, turns 82 years old today. Nimoy is best known for his role as Spock, the half-human, half-Vulcan science officer on Star Trek: The Original Series.

These are just a few examples to get us started: The Harlem Globetrotters was the brainchild of promoter-coach Abe Saperstein in the mid- to late-1920s. He thought the name gave them the right amount of appeal, mystique and prestige despite the fact, or perhaps, because of the fact, that he and his original players all came from, Chicago, not New York. And their headquarters was in Chicago too. Teens who own dogs get more physical exercise than teens who don't. If you have a bottle or jar top that won't unscrew, just run it under the hot water faucet for...

The conventional theory advanced by most paleontologists is that a "catastrophic event" took place 72 million years ago at the Kremmling site. A major hurricane or tidal surge drove the thousands of ammonites onto a sandbar where they died, became buried under sediment and eventually became fossilized. Dr. Evanoff rejects that theory, arguing that there is no evidence of the "stacking" of the animals and other debris that would have been caused by a violent catastrophic storm. Instead, he points out that the fossils are found more spread out along the site. Evanoff's alternate theory is that the KCAL is...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, June 8 (UPI) -- Doctors in Vancouver were stunned when the man they were operating on turned out to have dark green blood. No, the man was not following in the steps of "Star Trek's" fictional Mr. Spock -- a Vulcan with green blood, BBC News reported. The 42-year-old patient's unusually colored blood was caused by a migraine medication called sumatriptan, BBC News reported Friday. The medication caused a rare condition where sulfur is incorporated into the oxygen-carrying red blood cells, which turns the blood green, said Dr. Alana Flexman of St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver. The...

What a week for Star Trek actors. Leonard Nimoy (Mr. Spock) turns 75 today. His colleague, William Shatner (Captain Kirk) turned 75 this past Wednesday.

Did Early Humans First Arise in Asia, Not Africa? Nicholas Bakalar for National Geographic News   December 27, 2005 -----snip------They believe that early-human fossil discoveries over the past ten years suggest very different conclusions about where humans, or humanlike beings, first walked the Earth. New Asian finds are significant, they say, especially the 1.75 million-year-old small-brained early-human fossils found in Dmanisi, Georgia, and the 18,000-year-old "hobbit" fossils (Homo floresiensis) discovered on the island of Flores in Indonesia. -----snip------"What seems reasonably clear now," Dennell said, "is that the earliest hominins in Asia did not need large brains or bodies." These attributes...

This is wierd... and strangely compelling... and sick... and ... and ... and... Well it defies description! My daughter found this and sent the URL to me... she said she spent a fascinating 20 minutes tossing this bikini clad, flexible Frieda around as she fell through an atmosphere of balls... use your mouse. Dead Bikini Doll Fall

Leonard Nimoy sings "Bilbo Baggins"