The Republican Party was founded in 1854 in response to the growing conflict over slavery, particularly the effort to stop slavery from expanding into western territories. It grew out of meetings in Ripon, Wisconsin, and an organizing convention in Jackson, Michigan, on July 6, 1854, emerging not from a single founder but from a coalition…
Things I Hate: Sonic Superstars (Nintendo Switch)
Sonic Superstars is a Nintendo Switch game I own, which I bought on Black Friday last year and took a long time to get around to. I found it for next to nothing, probably ten bucks or so, and it honestly looked promising. But the final product rubbed me the wrong way. Probably the best…
Fun Facts and Trivia About Election Day in the USA
Election Day in the United States falls on the Tuesday following the first Monday in November, a formula that places it somewhere between November 2 and November 8 depending on the year. On Election Day, Americans cast votes for federal offices including every seat in the House of Representatives, roughly a third of the Senate,…
Things I Like: Nintendogs (Nintendo DS)
Nintendogs came out roughly 20 years ago and was genuinely a big deal at the time. Plenty of people were initially skeptical, but I distinctly remember the Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu awarding it a perfect 10 out of 10, a score reserved strictly for the absolute best of the best back then. Plenty of outstanding…
Fun Facts and Trivia About The Chemical Element Ytterbium
Ytterbium is a soft, silvery rare-earth metal with atomic number 70, best known today for its role in high-power fiber lasers, though its path to discovery was a tangled, decades-long story involving mistaken identities and scientific rivalry. Its name comes from Ytterby, a tiny village in Sweden where a mineral containing the element was first…