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Thursday, August 30 “I can visit your Sydney, or your Melbourne, but I am not welcome in your bush.” The city of Melbourne turns 177 today. The Economist Group’s Intelligence Unit has named it “the world’s most livable city” for the past two years, so let’s not all ruin that by moving there at once. [...]

Thursday, August 23 William Wallace was executed on this date in 1305. Killed as a traitor to the British crown (which he refused to recognize, as you may remember from Braveheart, although the other 99% of that movie was made up,) Wallace was hanged, drawn, and quartered, a punishment that wasn’t officially en vogue as [...]

Thursday, August 9 Olympic Fun Fact: Historically, the host cities of the Olympic Games tend to win more medals during their hosting year than they have in the Games four years prior (for example, Great Britain’s 146 medals won during the 1908 London Olympics as opposed to their 2 medals during the 1904 Olympics in [...]

Thursday, August 2 Olympic Fun Fact: My grandfather (GrandadBint) received a gold medal at the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, California. He was not an athlete; as an engineer for IBM, GrandadBint was instrumental in developing a program that was used in collecting and figuring scores for the competitors as the Olympic Games began [...]

Thursday, July 26 On this date in 1953, approximately 100 Arizona police officers and National Guard soldiers raided a polygamous community in Short Creek, Arizona. The entire community was taken into custody, and 263 children were taken from their parents. Some children were eventually returned to their parents, but several were not. While Arizona governor [...]

Thursday, July 11 July 12, 1843, is generally accepted by historians as the date on which Joseph Smith received his official “revelation” regarding the doctrine of plural marriage for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Apparently, when this revelation was read to Joseph’s first wife, Emma, she “did not believe a word [...]

Thursday, February 9th   Nobody does the Seal Pump like the Chukchi. Wipeout (ABC, 8 pm) Contestants encounter Garry the Eskimo as they tackle the Arctic Circle. The Inuit Cultural Education Association already has already filed a complaint with ABC concerning Garry’s dress and behavior “designed to encourage misleading stereotypes.” Grey’s Anatomy (ABC, 9 pm) [...]

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