Grand Funk Railroad played a sold-out show in July of 1971 at the now-defunct Shea Stadium in Queens, New York City, performing their hit song “I’m Your Captain (Closer to Home)” to a packed stadium of appreciative fans. The 55,000 available tickets for this show were sold out in an amazing 72 hours, breaking the…
Pablo Rochat, a creative prankster in San Francisco hilariously played a lively game of foosball with skewered hot dogs cooking over a grill and a soccer ball made out of aluminum foil. Hotdog ball? View this post on Instagram A post shared by Pablo Rochat (@pablo.rochat)
Actor John Bradley, who played the gentle and intellectual yet fiercely loyal Samwell Tarly for all eight seasons of Game of Thrones, gave a truly inspirational answer to a question posed to him by Conan O’Brien during a cast reunion in 2019. Conan asked Bradley how he felt about the longevity of his character throughout…
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Kitten memes ? | Cat page (@fluffy__kittens) A little orange tabby kitten adorably sat in front of the television and repeatedly tried to block the ball from going into the net during a football (soccer) game, making her the cutest yet most ineffectual goalkeeper around. Meanwhile…
During a 2019 Letters Live event at Union Chapel in London, the incredibly impressive Olivia Colman read aloud a very amusing, if not somewhat cheeky demand letter from Elizabeth (Eliza) Compton, Countess of Northampton to her husband Lord William Compton in 1618. My Sweet Life, Now I have declared to you my mind for the settling…
Tom Blank of Weird History Food looks at how the turkey became the bird of choice for Thanksgiving dinner, noting that it was most likely not present at the original feast. The members of the Wampanoag tribe brought five whole deers, while The Pilgrims provided fowl of some sort. While the meal lives on in infamy,…
In an transforming TED-Ed lesson written by Francis de los Reyes and animated by JodyPrody, narrator Addison Anderson explains how wastewater can be made safely drinkable through two different, yet equally thorough, treatment processes. One of these processes was adopted by Singapore in 2003 and increased their water stores by over 50%. In 2003, Singapore’s national water agency…
A sleekly gorgeous black leopard named Luna, who was born into a traveling circus and rescued as a starving kitten after her mother refused to feed her, now lives a wonderful life as a cuddly family cat with her loving human Victoria and her best friend, a Rottweiler named Venza. I was asked to take…
ParsonsMusicLTDMedia shared a fascinating visual tour showing how legendary Bach trumpets are made. The video shows how each trumpet is carefully fashioned in a careful manner befitting such an instrument. The company was founded in 1918 by Vincent Bach who wanted to share his talent for music and engineering with others. Vincent Bach combined his…
Max Miller of Tasting History, who previously shared a 1796 recipe for “pompkin” pie, reached back further into history to find the earliest version of the dessert known as a pumpion pie from 1670. The recipe comes from “The Queene-like Closet” by Hannah Wolley. So today we are making one of the first recipes for that dessert:…
