Head Scratchers & Good Stuff to Know

On the spur of the moment, funny guy Jay Leno bought Seafair, a Newport, Rhode Island estate that sits perched above the Atlantic Ocean as a gift to his wife Mavis immediately after seeing it. In early December 2017, the celebrity couple was driving down Ocean Drive and spotted the lavish Louis XIV... Sign in to see full entry.

It is one of my hubby's favorite spicy creations, so when I searched for the recipe, I learned that the popular heat-infused Nashville-hot chicken has been around for nearly 80 years. The flavor-bomb-heat enhanced culinary southern meal was created in 1945 thanks to a lover’s quarrel. When Thornton... Sign in to see full entry.

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At its fullest extent, the Pan-American Highway is the longest road in the world with a network of roads stretching from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, to Ushuaia, Argentina, making a distance of roughly 19,000 miles. The highway passes through 14 countries, including the United States, Canada, Mexico,... Sign in to see full entry.

Last week we tried a new restaurant. After being seated by the host, I noticed that the waiter who took our order carried a spoon in his shirt pocket. When another waiter brought us our drinks, I noticed he also had a spoon in his shirt pocket. Then I looked around and saw that all the waiters and... Sign in to see full entry.

Two women walking down the street in Toronto in 1937 caused a ruckus because naked legs were publicly unacceptable during that time in the world. The "Toronto Morality Police" arrested young women for misbehaving and inappropriate behavior, which could include vagrancy, showing too much skin,... Sign in to see full entry.

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They were known as the “bookwomen,” and their goal was simple. The roving horseback libraries was a group of dedicated women who would saddle up at dawn, then pick their way along snowy hillsides and through muddy creeks to deliver reading material to Kentucky’s isolated mountain communities, which... Sign in to see full entry.

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