It has been almost three months now that Hurricane Helene’s damaging wind and flood waters swept through Western North Carolina. Currently, there are hundreds of people living in tents and temporary housing while they wait for repairs and new construction […]
For the first time since 2017, the National Park Service will be administering the test for becoming a guide at the Gettysburg National Military Park. Since the 1930 the Park Service has maintained around 150 guides, but currently, that number […]
Here’s a really unusual world record that you probably haven’t heard of–a quick-fingered concert pianist from Romania unofficially broke a Guinness World Record by hitting a piano key 500 times in 30 seconds. Thurzó Zoltán, a renowned concert pianist, videoed […]
Becoming a Man (BAM) is a program under the auspices of Youth Guidance (https://www.youth-guidance.org/youth-guidance-los-angeles), based out of Chicago. I was given the honor of visiting their summer session 2024 and I’d like to describe my experiences briefly. The Location Los […]
Nigel Richards has won 11 North American and world championships in Scrabble, which is eight more than anyone else. The 57 year old man from New Zealand has earned the title of the best Scrabble player of all times. David […]
In the 1930s, there were some racists laws that excluded certain people from renting places to live. At that time in Coronado, California, a man who was born into slavery in Kentucky named Gus Thompson, rented a house to the […]
To honor his 60th birthday, Michael Jordan made the largest-ever donation to the Make-A-Wish organization this week. According to the Associated Press, Jordan donated $10 million to Make-A-Wish, which will create an endowment to provide funding to make future wishes […]
One of the highest paid YouTube creators, Jimmy Donaldson, funded 1000 ten-minute surgeries last week that restored the vision via a MSICS procedure (manual small incision cataract surgery.) This procedure “vacuums” off cataracts that are causing cloudiness in the patient’s […]
Every year thousands of mountain bikers attempt to ride the treacherous, well known trails in Moab, Utah. One of the toughest and most dangerous trails is called The Whole Enchilada. It’s 27 miles and drops some 8000 feet where it […]