For The First Time (or the last time)

In the late 1990s, the average desktop PC cost about $1,000, while the average laptop cost about twice as much Because of new technology and...

Not only is today Same Sex Kiss Day, and Tax Day, it's also my birthday. I got so gay that I even broke the trans-species barrier, and g...

Why do I care about this? I'm not gay. I've been a married heterosexual for over 37 years, and I view marriage as a fundamental civi...

I'm taking a few days off.

On Monday, Cuban president Raul Castro met with seven visiting members of the Congressional Black Caucus, his first face-to-face discussions...

Most US military personnel who die on duty return to the United States via Dover Air Force base in Delaware. In 1991, at the time of the Per...

CBS announced yesterday that the longest-running scripted program in broadcasting history, the soap opera “Guiding Light,” will be canceled ...

April Fooler Michael N. Marcus Rejects Panasonic Gag Order, Urges People to Attend Free Speech Rally at Patrick Henry Memorial in Virginia ...

Downsizing to a $47 million condominium on the top two floors of a building in Century City, Candy Spelling, widow of TV producer Aaron Spel...

March 27, 1884 was the date of the first long distance call in the US, from Boston to New York City. Apparently the world's first LD cal...

On Dec. 21, 1984, about 100 people in Elkins, West Virginai were in the town armory to watch a women's basketball game between West Virg...

Myra Colby Bradwell was born in 1831 in Vermont. In 1852, she married James B. Bradwell and they operated a private school in Tennessee. In ...

The Post-Intelligencer, Seattle's first newspaper, was founded in 1863 as the Seattle Gazette. The paper failed after a few years and wa...

Maine started its first-in-the-nation program to expand computer use by distributing more than 30,000 computers to each seventh- and eighth-...

Apparently, the first places that sold gasoline were drugstores. Henry Ford's mass-production of cars lowered prices and greatly increa...

West Haven, Connecticut -- a town with 52,000 people and three fire chiefs and three different fire department websites -- has gained addit...

Yesterday I got an email from the Republican National Committee asking me to send money to fight the Democratic Party's alleged plans to...

What began 60 years ago as a small TV store in Richmond, Virginia ended yesterday as Circuit City closed its 567 remaining American stores. ...

Inaugural costume, while generally formal, has varied over the years. A contemporary account reported that Washington wore "a complete ...

Over the years, Mickey Dee's has experimented with lots of items in an effort to broaden their business beyond fries and burgers. Egg Mc...