A “frog” can refer to a decorative fabric closure on clothing or to a fishing lure. A “braided loop” can be part of either of these items or refer to a specific knot used for a fishing lure. In clothing, a frog is an ornamental braided knot-and-loop closure. In fishing, a braided loop may refer…
Things I Like: Family Matters (TV Series)
For many people, including myself, growing up in the 1990s, Family Matters was one of my favorite programs. I watched reruns all throughout the 2000s when I still had basic cable. It ironically started out kind of like the Black version of Full House, but evolved into something much more comically different. My wife and…
Fun Facts and Trivia About Jesse Jackson
Jesse Jackson was born on October 8, 1941, in Greenville, SC during the height of Jim Crow segregation in the American South, a backdrop that heavily shaped his later activism. He was born Jesse Louis Burns and was raised primarily by his mother and stepfather, Charles Henry Jackson, whose surname he later adopted. His biological…
Our Visit to Whit’s Frozen Custard of James Island (Charleston SC)
The Sunday of our spring break vacation, we were so tired from traveling and going to the beach that we ended up having a very lazy day. We still wanted to leave the beach house for a bit, so all we really did was go to Whit’s Frozen Custard for some ice cream. It is…
Fun Facts and Trivia About The Chemical Element Palladium
Palladium was discovered in 1803 by William Hyde Wollaston, an English chemist. He named it after the asteroid Pallas, which had been discovered just two years earlier. It is one of the rarest platinum-group metals, even rarer than platinum in nature. Its atomic number is 46, placing it among the transition metals on the periodic…