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Each year on the first Friday in June, people participate in National Doughnut or Donut Day, celebrating the doughnut and honoring the Salvation Army Lassies. The Salvation Army Lassies are the women who served doughnuts to soldiers during WWI.In 1917, the original “Salvation Army Doughnut” was first served by the ladies of the Salvation Army. It was during WWI that the Salvation Army Lassies went to the front lines of Europe. Home-cooked foods, provided by these brave volunteers, were a morale boost to the troops. The doughnuts were often cooked in oil inside the metal helmets of American soldiers. American...

NATIONAL EGGS BENEDICT DAY On April 16th, National Eggs Benedict Day celebrates a long-favored breakfast or brunch dish. Eggs Benedict consists of poached eggs with Hollandaise sauce and Canadian bacon or ham on English muffin halves. #National Eggs Benedict Day There are two different stories as to how Eggs Benedict came to be. In 1894 stockbroker Lemuel Benedict ordered “buttered toast, poached eggs, crisp bacon, and a side of Hollandaise” at the Waldorf Hotel. They were so impressed with the dish that they put it on the menu, substituting ham and English muffins in place of the bacon and toast....

Veteran character actor Richard Herd, best known for portraying Mr. Wilhelm on “Seinfeld,” died on Tuesday at his Los Angeles home of complications from cancer. He was 87. The Boston native broke into show business as a stage actor in New York. He made his film debut in 1970’s “Hercules in New York.” Herd was hired as Richard Long’s replacement for the part of Watergate burglar James McCord in Alan J. Pakula’s “All the President’s Men.” Herd’s big-screen credits included “The China Syndrome” (1979) “F.I.S.T.” (1979), “The Onion Field” (1979), “Planes, Trains and Automobiles” (1987) and “Midnight in the Garden...

Each spring on Lake Michigan, if you’re lucky, you’ll be able to see shipwrecks due to the incredibly clear springtime waters. Every winter, ice forms on the Great Lakes. That ice is often thick enough that the people who live on their shores can not only go ice fishing, but even ride snow mobiles across their surfaces. At the coming of spring, the ice melts, leaving the waters of some of the lakes especially clear for a while until warmer weather creates algae blooms and other events that reduce the water’s clarity. In the early spring, the waters of Lake...

(WXYZ) — Art Van Furniture is closing all of its locations and beginning liquidation sales. "Despite our best efforts to remain open, the Company's brands and operating performance have been hit hard by a challenging retail environment," said Diane Charles, Art Van Furniture spokesperson. "We recognize the extraordinary retail, community and philanthropic legacies that Art Van Furniture has built for decades in the community." Art Van Elslander, opened his first furniture store in metro Detroit in 1959, growing it to the number one furniture and mattress retailer in the Midwest.

After lurking for a several months, I figured more folks would hear my responses if I joined and posted rather than shouting "Close your tags!" at the computer screen. So I joined under my first screen name, which is still there. (Don't tell Jim Thompson). Excerpt. Read more at http://www.freerepublic.com/~ljlucido/ A couple years later I wanted my full name as my screen name and didn't realize that I could just ask Mr. Thompson to change my original screen name and let me keep my sign-on date, so I opened a new account in 2002 (don't tell him that, either). So...

US-IRAN EXCHANGE PRISONERS Chinese-American Xiyue Wang is freed from an Iranian prison and Iranian Massoud Soleimani is freed from a US prison. That happening in this week's "Newsdump Period" the Friday-Saturday window...... The BBC reports......LINK And the story of the Iranian scientist returning home from "Press TV" in Iran.....LINK Good news in the midst of the all the sabre rattling about some Iranian threat to the US military in Iraq leaked out of the Pentagon this week. This week there was also word of planning to send more members of our military to the Middle East to counter Iran. But...

KIRO says the Seattle Fire Department was called to the crash at the LA Fitness located on Aurora Ave. The gym had to be evacuated and will be closed for the remainder of Monday. According to Q13Fox, three people were swimming in the pool when the car crashed into the building, but no one was injured. One swimmer helped get the driver out of the car safely immediately after it entered the pool. The crash is under investigation.

ARCADIA, Mich. (AP) — An exclusive golf course in northern Michigan has changed its website to no longer encourage players to hit balls into Lake Michigan after a diver hired by a newspaper found hundreds in the water. State environmental regulators said they're investigating what has occurred at Arcadia Bluffs, where a round of golf on the course overlooking the northeastern shore of the lake costs $215 during the peak summer season. A beverage cart employee said she was fired for discouraging players from hitting balls into the lake.

Roger Penske may want to get a room at the White House. President Trump has announced plans to award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Penske, who has already been feted at the White House twice this year as the owner of the 2019 Indy 500 and 2018 NASCAR championship teams. The decoration honors civilians who have made "an especially meritorious contribution to the security or national interests of the United States, world peace, cultural or other significant public or private endeavors." "He's very deserving. He's a great gentleman," Trump said at the White House on Thursday. "I've known him...

A locomotive that derailed and plunged from a cliff into Lake Superior has been discovered after 106 years. Canadian Pacific Railway Locomotive No. 694 was discovered by shipwreck hunters in July, about 230 feet deep in the waters of Lake Superior, near Marathon, Ontario. The wreck claimed three lives on the morning of June 10, 1910.

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Delegates found duct-taped in Cruz's trunk! Closed circuit video of unaware delegate prior to being stolen by Cruz. Cruz even broke his thumbs before stealing him! (Reverse excerpt. Read less at my blog)

Ben Tuliebitz grew up a Yankees fan, attended Don Bosco and started working for his favorite club 10 years ago as a media relations assistant. "I didn't even know there was a traveling secretary until I started working here," said Tuliebitz, who quickly aspired to the position. Now, he's in his fifth season moving the Yankees from city to city. And no, there isn't an "assistant to the traveling secretary" position on the Yankees – the job George Costanza famously held on "Seinfeld" – but Tuliebitz does have an intern. Two years ago, that intern's name was Jason Alexander Ludwig...

Just came across this show recently and have been laughing my @ss off. This particular episode is a must-see! The premise: Village idiot starts his very own blog, and the locals react. Hilarity ensues.Click the links below. Part IPart IIPart IIIPart IV

Blogger Libertyprunejuiceflipnjokersweezlezipperflavornews astounded the world, or at least part of it, by self-excerpting his own blog, but then posting the entire thing on FreeRepublic!!! "This is a first for the blogosphere! Or at least part of it!" said one source. "This is like, wow!!!" said another source, but with more exclamation points. "What's next, a blogger making his own videos instead of stealing them???" he added, with extra question marks. "But if he reverse excerpts, how will he get blog hits??????!!!!!!" inquired another, while popping a valium. Meantime, stuned observers recharged their beebers in nervous anticipation of the potential fallout....

Actor Larry Thomas takes a break with a couple of comely lasses while shooting a commerical at Zoup in Southfied, Michigan shooting a commerical at Zoup. While he was distracted, I helped myself to a bowl of the Chicken Pot Pie.

Bears have some awfully funny inclinations. Back in 2004 there were all those wackynews stories about the bear who'd downed three dozen cans of beer at a campground and proceeded to pass out. But this one takes the cake: this summer, when Vermont hiker Kris Rowley was approached by a bear and it kept following her, it proved more interested in chowing down on her iPhone. Rowley, who serves as Vermont's chief information security officer, tells CIO.com: "In a semi-panic, I threw the phone at the bear." The bear proceeded to ignore Rowley and started clawing at the iPhone instead,...

Gateway and Packard Bell is done deal By Drew Cullen 9 Oct 2007 04:29 Subject to regulators, workers etc. Gateway, the US PC maker that is to be bought by Acer, the Taiwanese PC maker, is to buy Packard Bell, the (once Israeli, then Japanese, now) French PC maker that was going to be bought by Lenovo, the Chinese PC maker, which (according to rumours) had outbid Acer, which also wanted to buy Packard Bell. Got that? Good. Gateway had already announced that it would exercise right of first refusal to buy Packard Bell: yesterday it said it had funding...