Welcome to the first weekend of July (and a holiday weekend to boot). Here are a few links of interest for your weekend enjoyment.
Minor League Baseball teams are known for having unusual nicknames. Here is a roundup of the best team nicknames.
Chicago Cub fans are accustomed to seeing Obvious Shirts around Wrigley Field. Here s the story of Joe Johnson, founder of Obvious Shirts, who turned a simple idea into an apparel juggernaut.
The history of the asterisk, or how a star was born.
Before interstate highways were built, Route 66 was the main east-west artery. Here are 20 interesting facts about the famous roadway.
Attention Potterheads: Diagon Alley is a real place.
A painting falls off the wall and while being restored it was discovered to be a Rembrandt.
A boat owner discovered a message in a bottle in the Cheboygan River in Michigan. That is just the beginning. Tracking down the family of the author is another story.
Alan Turing is best known for helping to decode the Nazi Enigma code machine. But while Turing and his team were working on Enigma others at Bletchley Park were working on a far more complex machine that would help win the war.
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