Today, August 5, 2010, Neil A. Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the moon, celebrates his 80th birthday. Armstrong, Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., and Michael Collins left Earth in Apollo 11 on July 16, 1969. On July 20, Armstrong guided the Eagle…
SlatePCs.com recently offered this brief techie explanation of digitization and recognized the Digital Library of Georgia, an initiative of GALILEO, along with other collaborative digitization projects. For a nice overview of the digitization…
July in National Blueberry Month. Not only are blueberries quite tasty, they are good for you, too. Consumer Health Complete includes articles and information on the health benefits of this superfood, and Alt HealthWatch includes quite a few…
Ernest Hemingway, American novelist and writer of short stories, was born on this day in 1899. He received the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for his novel, The Old Man and the Sea, and he later won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. Hemingway passed…
July in National Ice Cream Month, and the third Sunday of the month - July 18 this year - is National Ice Cream Day. If you can't make it to Humphry Slocombe in San Francisco to try out some interesting flavors but are looking for an excuse to…