If you have ever heard of Szczawno-Zdroj, a spa town in southwestern Poland, you get 50 rating points.       If you knew that in 1957, ...

       Thursday saw miserable weather, but at least we did not have the tornadoes and severe thunderstorms that occurred in the South. Frida...

     In May 1851, London staged the Great Exhibition to showcase British technology and the metropolis' chess community felt obliged to ...

     Comic books used to run Charles Atlas body building ads aimed at young boys offering courses that would turn a 97 pound weakling into a...

  ...would be as bad.       1948 was the year Mill Ends Park was dedicated in Portland, Oregon. The park, consisting of one tree is located ...

     Back in 1958 payola had became a household word. Record companies realized that popular disc jockeys could influence sales. The disc jo...

     The Labor Day holiday that fell on Monday, September 3, 1945, was a memorable one...the Japanese surrendered aboard the USS Missouri on...

     Germany entered into World War I on August 1, 1914, when it declared war on Russia. In accordance with its war plan, it ignored Russia ...

I don't know how relaxing listening to bagpipes is, but it's entertaining. Years ago I used to take a shortcut to work and drive thr...

     Before getting to the subject matter of this post, I discovered a "secret" in auto-annotating a game with Fritz 17 and ChessB...

     The year 1969 was a landmark year in history. The first humans landed on the moon under the Apollo space program. Neil Armstrong and B...