The Navy Brass wanted to compare and contrast the survivability of both American and Axis ships, which is why the Nazi Hipper-class heavy Cruiser Prinz Eugen was brought all the way from Europe for the test. By the time she arrived at Bikini, she was officially known as USS IX 300, which is the oddest […]

We will keep this short enough to just mark how special this week has been. The image? It is of an insouciant young man fifty years ago, who thought maybe it was time to get a haircut and try to find a decent job. That was around the time of another big celebration. I don’t […]

Time: 1:00 PM Park Opens 4:00 PM Events Begin 10:00 PM events conclude 9 hours duration Ticket holders can enter the park beginning at 1 pm. The special events are currently scheduled to begin at 4 pm and conclude around 10 pm. It will be available via livestream on the Travel South Dakota Website, with […]

332 S Main St, Shenandoah, PA 17976 Phone +1 570 462 1263 We don’t claim to know what you are cooking up this week but it is the best grilling conditions of the season so far. The Boys have the Russell ctovetop set up on the big patio on the west side of the building. […]

So, if you want to get technical, today is Independence Day. We know, we know. This is not an excuse to skip the Production Meeting or do anything actually enjoyable on this Heat Dome Holiday. We don’t know precisely what the weather was like in Virginia for their holiday week long ago. We do know […]

This was written on a day of some minor significance. It was April Fools, first of that month, and we were getting ready for summer. Not quite the same this morning. Back then, the cherry blossoms were coming out around the Tidal Basin, across the placid Potomac from the grand old wreck of a building […]

Editor’s Note: The nature of the world is in change. This item first appeared in the Socotra Daily in the summer of 1979 in a place called “Kenya.” See what you think… – Vic Mombasa, Kenya Nyali Beach We lurch away from the Fleet Landing and the crowds get thicker as the people smell American […]

The sun is out for the first time since last week. The emotion attached to the Big Holiday is sort of strange. Odd, you might say. Or capitalize it. This morning was jarring. Miles has the flatscreen on Channel 72—the Faux News feed—since their bias is balanced by the fact that we can see it, […]