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BY RANDAL C. HILL
When Star Trek premiered on NBC-TV in September 1966, creator Gene Roddenberry was no doubt knocked for a loop when his much-anticipated show tanked. It never rose above 52 in the...
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By Kathy A. Megyeri
“The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of emancipation itself.” -Virginia Woolf in “A Room of One’s Own”
Want fascinating summaries of unsung...
By Rebecca Fending
The month of March is National Women’s History Month. Women tend to be unsung heroes, taken for granted or largely forgotten. However, this month, we honor and revisit those who deserve to be exalted for their accomplishments.
Mary...
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BY RANDAL C. HILL
One toasty day in the summer of 1959, New York songwriter Paul Vance took his family to Long Island’s Lido Beach. There, his wife, Margie, surprised their nine-year-old daughter Paula with...
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No fictional Christmas story from English literature has been produced in so many versions on stage, in film, or on television as the Charles Dickens 1843 novella “A Christmas Carol.”
In television adaptations or parodies...
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By Kathy A. Megyeri
Tour any model home, and you’ll find popcorn in front of the TV or movie screen, cocktails on the end tables, desserts on trays in the dining room and a...
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By Kathy A. Megyeri
I grew up believing that Betty Crocker was a relative or dear family friend. Her cookbooks sat on a shelf next to the family Bible. Her endorsement and photo appeared on baking mixes and...
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By Jan Larraine Cox
When you are planning your holiday menu, remember to include an all-time favorite ingredient: chocolate!
Its scientific name means “food of the gods” and indeed, the first people to climb to the top of Mount...
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BY RANDAL C. HILL
Imagine four University of Florida doctors meeting in a campus basement lab in the spring of 1965. Clicking raised glasses to toast a newly created, transparent drink, each physician cautiously takes a sip. Yuck! Those standing close to a lab sink spit theirs out; the doctor standing further away—the team leader—vomits his.
But what else could you expect when people drink a lab-concocted equivalent...
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Premiering in Los Angeles a few days before Christmas 75 years ago, “The Yearling” depicted the post-Civil War Baxter family struggling to survive in the backwoods of Florida. Notwithstanding fine performances from screen parents...
