by david allan van nostrand | Apr 24, 2023 | Human Behavior, The world around us
One of these days in your travels, a guy is going to show you a brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is not yet broken. Then this guy is going to offer to bet you that he can make the jack of spades jump out of this brand-new deck of cards and squirt cider in...
by david allan van nostrand | Apr 17, 2023 | Human Behavior, Shaky Science, The world around us
“Look! Up In the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Superman! Yes, it’s Superman, strange visitor from another planet who came to earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men. Superman, who can change the course of mighty rivers, bend steel...
by david allan van nostrand | Apr 10, 2023 | Americana, Organizational Behavior, The world around us
The 1876 World’s Fair was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was there that Americans were introduced to an exotic new fruit. Before that, most Americans had never heard of bananas, much less eaten one. In one of the first recorded co-promotions, United Fruit...
by david allan van nostrand | Apr 3, 2023 | Human Behavior, Items in the News, The Wayback Machine, The world around us
That song was composed in 1949 by the same people who wrote Frosty the Snowman. Gene Autry’s recording of Here Comes Peter Cottontail reached #3 on one Billboard list and #5 on another. Peter Cottontail is Peter Rabbit’s alias in The Adventures of Peter Cottontail,...
