A Brief History Tonight, January 31, 2015, marks the return of Anderson “the Spider” Silva, the greatest mixed-martial artist of any weight class! Digging Deeper Unfortunately, his career almost came to a dramatic end in December 2013 when he fractured his leg in absolutely gruesome fashion. After a year of recovery, Silva competes once again tonight at UFC 183 against former Strikeforce and World Extreme Cage Fighting welterweight champion Nick Diaz. Should Silva have a successful return, he may once again challenge for the middleweight championship. On a bizarre note, while Silva is known for various charitable endeavors and for…
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This Just In! A couple of days ago, we reported on the mainstream media’s gloomy prediction of a potentially catastrophic snow storm striking North America on January 26-27, 2015. Yet, now such news reports as this one are slamming how Winter Storm Juno did not exactly live up to the “sky is falling” hype. Even Wikipedia mentioned the “Forecasting controversy” in their article on the storm, with “A number of New York City residents criticized New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s decision to shut down the city’s subway system for the first time ever due to snow. The nor’easter dropped much less snow in…
A Brief History To our North American readers, please be safe this week as we our currently being slammed by an historic winter storm. Digging Deeper In Ashland, Ohio, where I live, I woke to about half a foot of snow on my driveway and spent an hour or so working the snow blower as my father drove the tractor with the snow plow blade on trying to clear our country driveway. My morning class at Kent State University at Stark was also cancelled. In fact, some 165 closings and delays occurred in Northeast Ohio alone this morning due to Winter Storm Juno, part…
This Just In! While cleaning King Tut’s famous mask, conservators at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo got a little carried away and accidentally broke off the beard! These “restoration experts” must not have been too professional because they then used epoxy, a type of adhesive suitable for metal or stone but not for the materials in the mask, to glue it back on. Now there is a noticeable gap between the beard and the chin comprised of transparent yellow resin! And that is not all. Apparently drops of glue fell on the mask and were allowed to dry before being scraped off, leaving…
This Just In! Twenty-one months ago, acclaimed video game series Rock Band released what was believed to be the last of its more than 3,000 downloadable (DLC) tracks: Don McLean’s “American Pie.” The song, famous for concerning “the day the music died,” seemed apropos to the death of the major band simulation video game franchises Guitar Hero and Rock Band. Yet, we are pleased to report that Harmonix has ended nearly two years of musical silence by reviving its former practice of offering fun songs to jam with your friends on the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360. Read here for more information!…