A Brief History On April 3, 2023, I noticed a cat walking along a tree line in Ashland, Ohio near U.S. Route 250 east of Interstate 71. Digging Deeper I am sharing this footage that I took for the benefit of any students or subscribers who live nearby that may be looking for their cat as well as for my farther away subscribers who are perhaps just interested in what Ohio looks like during the present season. Question for students (and subscribers): Do you own or have you ever owned a cat? Please let us know in the comments section…
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A Brief History On January 21, 2023, we celebrate Squirrel Appreciation Day, one of the greatest holidays in all of the Rodent Kingdom! Digging Deeper Yes, squirrels are rodents, cousins to mice and rats, although with a much more attractive coat. Tree squirrels, ground squirrels, chipmunks, prairie dogs and flying squirrels are all in this expansive family. Although squirrels are native to the Americas, Asia, and Africa, they had to be introduced to Australia and Europe. Often accused of crimes such as stealing food from bird feeders and burglarizing houses, squirrels provide a lot of visual enjoyment as they scurry…
A Brief History On August 26, 2022, we all celebrate National Dog Day, a day invented by Colleen Paige in 2004. While our canine friends are useful in so many ways, today we take a look at a more grim aspect of our relationship with dogs. Digging Deeper While it is highly possible that even Cave men that first domesticated dogs thousands of years ago may have in some manner used their canine friends as co-combatants, some early civilizations such as the ancient Greeks used of dogs in a combat as the Romans around the time of the Roman Republic…
A Brief History On August 20, 2020, we finally got around to watching the third installment in the Deep Blue Sea movie franchise, the aptly named Deep Blue Sea 3. Released on July 28, 2020, the film serves as a direct sequel to the second movie in the franchise, Deep Blue Sea 2, and like the first sequel, #3 is a direct to video release. (Watch it “On Demand” or on a streaming site.) Picking up where the first 2 films left off, with the genetic tinkering with of deadly sharks, the mad scientists have created intelligent killing machines that…
A Brief History On August 3, 1997, the Sky Tower in Auckland, New Zealand opened, taking the title as the tallest free standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere. At 1076 feet tall, this telecommunications and observation tower is indeed tall compared to most buildings, even skyscrapers and most other towers, but it is positively puny compared to the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, United Arab Emirates which at 2722 feet is BY FAR the tallest free standing structure in the world, the tallest building ever built by human beings. So far… Today we take a look at some the really tall…
