Friday, December 18, 2020

Weekend Links 12-18-20

This is going to be my last Weekend Links post for 2020. I still have a couple of things scheduled to post over the next couple of weeks but will be taking some time off from the blog for the holidays. Hopefully we will have a lot more fun content for you in 2021. Weekend Links will return on January 8, 2021. In the meantime here are a few links for your weekend reading.

You never know what you will find buried in the garden. Gardeners unearth coins inscribed with the initials of Henry VIII's first three wives. 

Last week Chuck Yeager passed away at the age of 97. Homer Hickam writes about what made Yeager a true American hero. 

Sir David Suchet reading The Night Before Christmas is just the holiday content we need. 

We also recently lost the great espionage novelist John Le Carre. This interview from 1965 with Malcolm Muggeridge is thoroughly fascinating. Thankfully he changed his mind and decided to continue writing sp novels. 

Pez dispensers are particularly popular as stocking stuffers this time of year. However the mints were actually developed as an anti-smoking measure. 

Podcast of the week: I just discovered The Golden Age of Baseball podcast and it is a delight. It is hosted by Eddie Robinson who just turned 100 years old this week and is the oldest living Major League Baseball player. His stories of his playing days are fascinating. 

This just goes to prove that there is a club for just about everything. 

During the tumultuous year of 1968 the Apollo 8 mission brought peace at Christmas to all the Earth. An excerpt from the new book Operation Moonglow: A Political History of Project Apollo. 


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