History Schmistory: November 27th – Up up and ‘get’ away
Thursday, November 27, 2025
1962 – Seattle Washington
The first test flight of the Boeing 727. Incidentally, if you ever find yourself in Costa Rica you can stay in a hotel made of an old model!
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By Gotanero (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
Did you hug a vet today?
Tuesday, November 11, 2025
…well hop to it!
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Did you remember?
Sunday, November 2, 2025
Take those skeletons back out of the closet… literally! You still have time to observe Mexico’s Day of the Dead. And you thought Halloween was over!
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HALLOWEEN HIKE OF HORROR!
Friday, October 31, 2025
Marco Polo takes a walk in the woods. What could go wrong?
Happy Haunting, Folks!
Friday, October 31, 2025
Get your Halloween Spook on!
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Cool App: Virtual Rome!
Thursday, October 16, 2025
History Schmistory: October 16th: Sanitation Haven
Thursday, October 16, 2025
1869: Boston, A hotel in Boston becomes the first to have indoor plumbing. Yet in 2015 we still have to deal with these….
Honey Bucket by Brian Teutsch via Flickr, creative commons license.
Remembering one of America’s Greatest innovators…
Sunday, October 5, 2025
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Are you super boring? This book is for you!
Saturday, September 20, 2025
Check out the new book Maphead from the Jeopardy guy, Ken Jennings. You gotta love a guy who says his favorite thing as a kid was tearing open National Geographic so he could scope out the maps. The only person nerdier would be someone working on a travel show for kids, huh?
All the best, Marco!
Monday, September 15, 2025
