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Just in time for the 2019 Super Bowl, Sam Adams has released details about its latest beer: Too Old, Too Slow, Still Here is a tongue-in-cheek nod to Tom Brady and the Patriots’ 2018-2019 season. Inspired by both playful banter between Brady and Patriots receiver Chris Hogan (“I’m too old, you’re too slow,” Brady joked) and Brady’s rousing “We’re still here” chant, Sam Adams’ new farmhouse double New England IPA will debut during a release party at the Boston Brewery & Tap Room on Thursday, Jan. 31 from 4:30 p.m.–7:30 p.m. The first 199 people — in honor of Brady’s...

Charlie Watts, legendary drummer of The Rolling Stones is celebrating his 77th birthday this weekend.He's preparing for a live show on Tuesday with the boys in Manchester.

"Let us look back at Samuel Whittemore. Samuel was an old man -- seventy-eight years old, to be exact -- on April 19, 1775. After many years of service bearing arms for the British Crown, surely he was too old to fight, and his wife even told him so. On that fateful morning, though, he gathered up his musket, two pistols, and a cavalry saber that he acquired from a French officer who "died suddenly" and took his place to meet the British Regulars in Menotomy."

It may have been Friday the Thirteenth, but it was a lucky day for Morse code--and particularly for veteran CW contest ops Chip Margelli, K7JA, and Ken Miller, K6CTW. During a May 13 appearance on NBC's The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, the pair was able to pass a message using good old fashioned Morse code more rapidly than a pair of teenaged text messengers equipped with modern cell phones. The victory, which replicated a similar challenge that took place recently in Australia, has provided immense encouragement to Amateur Radio's community of CW operators, who been ballyhooed the achievement all...