Baseball icon Joe Torre was born on July 18, 1940 in Brooklyn, New York.   He became a professional baseball player at age 20, and spent time playing for the Atlana Braves, the St. Louis Cardinals and the New York Mets.  After his career as a player was over, he took on the role of manager.  [...]

Pop singer Kate Ryan was born on July 22, 1980 in Tessenderlo, Belgium.   She was playing guitar and piano by the time she was eight years old.  At sixteen she joined the pop group Melt, but quit the group for a solo career after two years.  Her first solo release, Scream for More, was a [...]

Wolves are able to live in basically the same places that humans can thrive.  As long as there is food available, wolves could survive.   Wolves can be found in Canada, Alaska, and in parts of Minnesota, Idaho, Washington, Montana and Wisconsin.  These close relatives of domestic dogs used to live all over the United States, [...]

The beloved author of the famed Harry Potter series of books was born in Gloucesthire, England on July 31, 1965.  Today, Rowling lives in Scotland with her husband, Neil Murray, and her three children.  While writing was an early ambition, her first attempts didn’t amount to much.  That all changed in 1997 when the world [...]

George W. Bush, the 43rd president of the United States of America, was born in New Haven, Connecticut on July 6, 1946.  Even though he was born in a yankee state, he grew up in Midland and Houston Texas.  Since taking office on January 20, 2001, home has been The White House.  When his second [...]

The average human liver weighs just three and a half pounds, but it performs several functions that are vital for good health.  Located on the right side of the upper abdomen to the right of the stomach, the liver is both the largest organ in the body and the largest gland.  Below are some of [...]

While sugar has a bad rap among healthy eaters, it is a natural carbohydrate source that contains no synthetic chemicals.  It is harvested from sugar cane and sugar beet.  There is no difference between sugar harvested from sugar cane and that harvested from sugar beet.  Sugar cane, which stores sugar in its long stalk,  requires [...]

Albert Einstein was the most notable physicist of the 20th century.  Born in Ulm, Germany on March 14, 1879, he attended schools in Germany and Switzerland.   He renounced his German citizenship in 1933, and moved to the United States.   He accepted a professorship at Princeton University and obtained his U.S. citizenship in 1940.  He received numerous [...]

The hit show “Happy Days” aired from 1974-1984.   One of the most memorable moments in the series came when the character Fonzie jumped over hungry sharks on water skis.  It was from that scene that the term “jump the shark” originated.   The term is used to describe television shows that have reached their peak.  As [...]

Internet savvy people know that a boolean search allows users to widen or narrow their internet search by combining or excluding words by including terms such as “AND”, “NOT” and “OR” in their search criteria.   What many may not know is how the search method got such a funny sounding name.  George Boole was a 19th [...]