Welcome to the first Weekend Links of 2021. I had high hopes that 2021 was going to be a better year than 2020 but already we are a week into the year and it has developed into something far stranger than 2020. The word unprecedented comes to mind when reflecting on the events of this week in our nation's capitol. Even that seems to be a severe understatement. We are in for some rough times ahead. Here's to hoping things getting better very soon. In the meantime, here are a few links of interest that I discovered during the last couple of weeks.
In 1961, President John F. Kennedy gave a stirring speech announcing the United States' intention to go to the moon. Here is the story behind that historic address.
Try wrapping your brain around this: Swedish television is developing a series based on the fictional detective Sven Hjerson which was a creation of fictional detective writer Ariadne Oliver which was a character in several Agatha Christie novels.
Speaking of Agatha Christie, a new novel speculates what happened to Ms. Christie when she disappeared in 1926.
Meet the archaeologist who has assembled a collection of over 4500 beer cans.
When my girls were young they loved Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown. We read it aloud so many times they memorized the text. However, not everyone was a fan when the book was published including a very influential New York librarian.
An interview with Alex Rider star Otto Farrant on making season 2 of the series and his favorite James Bond.
Vince Guaraldi is best known as the man who scored the Peanuts specials. Here's the story of how one of his most famous compositions, Linus and Lucy, became a jazz standard.
A tribute to the man who wrote the most perfect sentences in the English language: P. G. Wodehouse.
Strange history: how homing pigeons helped the Allies win World War II.
In addition to writing numerous Perry Mason novels, Erle Stanley Gardner was also involved in several cases getting wrongly accused criminals exonerated. This is one of those cases.
It's been 25 years since Calvin and Hobbes left the comics pages. Here's why the strip still enchants us.
The long, strange history of baseball's most curious rule: the dropped third strike.
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