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Currently there s a hipster secondhand clothing store called 2nd Street at 1057 Ponce de Leon Ave., in Atlanta, close to Plaza Theatre and across Cleburne Terrace from The Majestic: From 1977 to 1993, Atlanta s regional record chain was Turtle s Records and Tapes. And the place that is now 2nd Street wasn t just a Turtle s, it Continue reading "Maria McKee and Dodgeball "
On November 10, 1951 Sir Hugh Beaver went hunting. At one point an argument broke out in the hunting party over which bird was the fastest European game bird . This was the 1950s, long before the Internet, and Sir Hugh, the managing director of the Guinness beer empire, realized that similar arguments must break out Continue reading "The Birth of the Book"
Jump Lists are the list of documents that appear when you right-click a taskbar icon in Windows 1x. They re a handy tool, but as far as I know, Microsoft still doesn t provide a way to delete only the jump list of a specific app. Consider: you re hosting a Zoom call and will share your desktop Continue reading "Deleting a Specific Jump List"
This is Bob Montag. He played for the Atlanta Crackers, a minor league baseball team, in the 1950s. He was a below-average outfielder, but was known for hitting very long home runs. In fact, he once hit a home run that traveled 520 miles! Sort of. Montag hit a home run during a game in Continue reading "The World s Longest Home Run"
This is the Hertella Auto Kaffeemachine, a third-party option for German Volkswagens in the 50s or 60s, and the only known coffee maker for a passenger car: It has some clever tricks: the mug is held in place via magnet, and the entire unit is held in place by a simple bracket, to make washing Continue reading "Autokaffee"
If I mention Henry VIII , you d likely think of a fat guy eating a turkey leg. But that s likely inaccurate. Turkeys are indigenous to North America. After several arguments over whether turkeys made it to England during Henry s lifetime, Tudor historians now generally agree that they probably did arrive late in Henry s reign. So he Continue reading "Henry VIII and Turkey Legs"
By Queen Victoria s reign, London was running out of space to bury its dead, especially since engineers were digging up so much of the city to bury water sewer lines and some were even talking about burying entire trains! WHAT A WORLD! A group of investors bought a huge plot of land in Brookwood, Continue reading "The London Necropolis Company"
So, I have the world s worst power company. And surprise, surprise my power went off today. Because of this, I have a UPS backup for my PC and primary monitor. The secondary monitor isn t on the backup, so when the power went off, that monitor turned off immediately. I normally do a daily walk, so Continue reading "When Windows Misidentifies Your Monitors"
Wow! Check it out! After I published last year s roundup in February, I swore I d get this year s list done ON TIME! And hey, it appears I have done so! Part of me wonders why I still bother doing these. I used to get a few comments on the site and a few Facebook likes Continue reading "My Top Albums Of 2025"
Several early Americans including George Washington had the idea of a canal connecting Lake Erie to the Hudson River and thus, the Atlantic Ocean via New York City. But it was four-time New York governor DeWitt Clinton who made it happen in the 1820s. Clinton sent recruitment teams to England to seek out Continue reading "The Upside-Down Traffic Light!"