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collage of 4 images from the fall of Saigon
Vi Thục Hà, April 30, 2025

On April 30, 1975, the United States Armed Forces Radio in Vietnam broadcast the following: "The temperature in Saigon is 105 degrees and rising," followed by the song "I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas." The American Embassy distributed the instructions surrounding this sequence to U.S.


El papa Francisco
Nicholas Clayton, April 25, 2025

El papa Francisco, el primer papa de las Américas, nació el 17 de diciembre de 1936 en Buenos Aires, Argentina y falleció el 21 de abril de 2025 en la Casa Marta, en la Ciudad del Vaticano. Hijo de inmigrantes italianos en Argentina, sus padres lo nombraron Jorge Mario.


Mario Vargas Llosa
Nicholas Clayton, April 18, 2025

Mario Vargas Llosa nació el 28 de marzo de 1936 en Arequipa, Perú y falleció en Lima el 13 de abril a los 89 años de edad. Durante su vida, vivió en varios países como Perú, Bolivia, España, y Francia. Ganó el premio Príncipe de Asturias en 1986 y también el premio Nobel de Literatura en 2010.


Collage of the Altair 8800 taken from the Age of Altair Catalog, 1975
Suzanne Im, January 30, 2025

Fifty years ago this month in 1975, the Altair 8800, one of the first commercially available personal computers, was released in kit form.


4 vintage jigsaw puzzles
Tina Lernø, January 29, 2025

January 29 is National Puzzle Day!

This got me thinking about the history of jigsaw puzzles: when were they invented, what is a jigsaw, and any other nerdy things I could research. Here are some fun facts I discovered.


Stonehenge at the summer solstice
Tina Lernø, June 18, 2024

Summer is here! Summer Reading is here!


1908 Leap Year The Silent Proposal artist August Hutaf Vintage Postcard
Tina Lernø, February 28, 2024

A leap year, also known as an "intercalary year" or "bissextile" year, is a calendar year that contains an additional day, or in the case of a lunisolar calendar, an entire month, compared to a "common" year.


El Paso skyline and mountains
Daniel Tures, August 15, 2022

I grew up in El Paso in the 1970s and 80s, a city that wraps around the Franklin Mountains out on the tip of west Texas, adjoining Ciudad Juárez across the Rio Grande in Chihuahua and a short drive from New Mexico to the north.


Balloonists get tips from the FAA
Donna Marie Atmur, June 05, 2022

Have you ever seen countless hot air balloons drift weightlessly across the sky like vibrantly colored jellyfish? This is something you might have viewed live, or on the internet, TV, or glimpsed on the glossy pages of a book or magazine.


4 vintage jigsaw puzzles
Tina Lernø, December 06, 2021

I have been an avid puzzler all my life, but because of Covid, I have rekindled my love of doing puzzles. 1000 pieces are my jam, and I can usually finish one in the course of 2 to 3 evenings or a marathon weekend.


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