I have had this little blog for nearly a year, and while I am not producing as much content as I would like, I am immensely proud of what I have written. January is a time to look back at …

January: A time to look both back and forward like a god with two faces… or why January is the first month of the year Read more »

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At the office today we got into a discussion about the Grinch, which got me thinking about the original Christmas Grinch, Ebenezer Scrooge. In Charles Dickens’ Christmas classic, “A Christmas Carol,” Scrooge dismisses the idea of Christmas with his classic line “Bah, humbug!” …

Christmas Fun Fact of the Day: Humbug! Read more »

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Statue of Pheidippides, the famous original marathon runner along the road from Marathon to Athens. The story of the Battle of Marathon and its connection to the modern marathon is a wonderful one, and a little bit more complicated that …

The distance between Marathon and Athens is NOT a Marathon. Wait What? Read more »

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Why is it that the bird is a “Chicken” but we eat “Poultry?”  The animal is a “Cow,” but we eat “Beef?”  The animal is a “Pig” but we eat “Pork?” The answer is…the Norman Invasion of 1066! Prior to …

Fun Fact of the Day: Weird Quirk of English Language History: The Animal vs. What we Eat Read more »

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