The name “Juneteenth” fuses the month and date of a pivotal moment in American history: June 19, 1865, when Union soldiers rode into Galveston, Texas, carrying word that slavery had ended. Though Abraham Lincoln had signed the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, the news took more than two years to reach enslaved people in…
Our Visit To Cold Stone Creamery (Greenville SC)
One of the final stops on the fun day I took the kids on after their dentist appointments was Cold Stone Creamery, the somewhat famous chain of ice cream shops. I’d be lying if I said it was brand new to me, because the last time I visited this Greenville location was around 2010 or…
Fun Facts and Trivia About Engineering
The word “engineering” derives from the Latin ingenium, a term that conveyed the idea of cleverness or an inventive solution. “Engineer” itself originally described those who constructed military machines such as catapults and siege towers during medieval conflicts. “Engine,” too, once had a much broader meaning than it does today. In medieval usage it referred…
Things I Like: Teth-Adam/Black Adam (DCEU)
The DCEU version of Black Adam was not my first exposure to the character, since I remember watching an animated movie where he fights both Shazam and Superman. He originally started as a Fawcett Comics character and served primarily as an antagonist to Shazam, but for the DC Extended Universe they chose to reinvent him…
Fun Facts and Trivia About Poetry
Poetry ranks among humanity’s oldest art forms, with surviving examples stretching back over four millennia. Works such as the Epic of Gilgamesh began as oral tradition before eventually being inscribed on clay tablets. The word “poetry” traces to the ancient Greek term poieo, meaning “to create” or “to make.” For early Greeks, poets were seen…