Cowabunga, Dude! This week, Tidbits checks out the facts on the multi-billion dollar franchise known as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.• Back in 1983, two comic book artists, Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird, were drawing silly cartoons in an attempt to make the other laugh. Eastman drew a parody of a superhero, a masked turtle standing […]
Purple has been a frequent idea in the world of music, as you’ll see from this week’s Tidbits facts. Share, like and love!
Lavender, plum, lilac, orchid, mulberry, amethyst, violet, grape, magenta … no matter your favorite shade, they all add up to purple! This week, Tidbits reminds us of some of our favorite things about this vibrant color.• On the visible spectrum of light, actual purple doesn’t exist. The shortest wavelength on the spectrum is actually violet, […]
• Scientist Michael Faraday was the first to “invent” a balloon. He needed to isolate gases to run tests, so he laid two sheets of rubber together, dusted with flour to prevent them from sticking together except at the edges, where they sealed themselves shut. The rubber he was using was latex sap from a […]
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Ran October 13, 2026 The Gilded Age in America was a period of rapid economic growth and industrialization stretching from the 1870s to the 1900s, marked by a sparkling surface of extreme wealth that masked deep poverty, corruption, and inequality.One more time; the problems of the Gilded Age—which included rampant political corruption, dangerous corporate monopolies, […]
The Continental Congress was the governing body and series of meetings that served as the de facto national government of the Thirteen American Colonies, and later the United States, from 1774 to 1789During the American Revolution, a cash-strapped Continental Congress accepted loans from France. Paying off these and other debts incurred during the Revolution proved […]
With the wide spread increase of data centers in the U.S. there has also been wide spread concern about them. Most people are highly concerned about the enviromental effects as well as the overall costs to area residents relating to utilities.I feel the same way about these issues, however what most people seem to miss […]
Ran 9/29/26 Socialism is a political and economic system where the community or the government owns and controls the major means of production, such as factories, land, and natural resources, instead of private individuals.The main goal of socialism is to share wealth more fairly and run the economy to meet human needs rather than to […]
