1923: First Christmas tree in the White House Harris & Ewing // Library of Congress 1923: First Christmas tree in the White House Alongside the radio, Christmas trees were a growing centerpiece of the holiday. In 1923, President Calvin Coolidge lit the first national Christmas tree in the Whi...
The Iowa baseball team is having another solid season under coach Rick Heller. They're 31-17 and 15-7 in the Big Ten. Thursday evening, it looked like the Hawkeyes would suffer their 18th loss. After 3 1/2 innings at Duane Banks Field in Iowa City, the Indiana Hoosiers had hit four...
A description of the upcoming season included in the trailer's announcement reads, "In the second season of 1923, a cruel winter brings new challenges and unfinished business to Jacob (Ford) and Cara (Mirren) back at Dutton ranch."
1923: First Christmas tree in the White House Harris & Ewing // Library of Congress 1923: First Christmas tree in the White House Alongside the radio, Christmas trees were a growing centerpiece of the holiday. In 1923, President Calvin Coolidge lit the first national Christmas tree in the Whi...
She also had a storied love life, having cycled through eight different spouses in her lifetime. 1922: Judy Garland Silver Screen Collection // Getty Images 1922: Judy Garland - Wikipedia page views over the past year: 9,099,538 - Birthday: June 10, 1922 - Notable works: "The Wizard ...
Mickey Guytonis the host of this year's televised holiday special, an annual White House tradition that dates all the way back to President Calvin Coolidge's administration during the 1923 holiday season. Guyton -- who also performed during the show -- made her Washington, D.C. trip a fami...
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Babe Ruth was dissatisfied playing only every 4-5 games and wanted to play in the lineup at first base or outfield when he wasn’t pitching. At the time, Ruth was probably the best left-handed pitcher in baseball and having him play other positions was not the wisest decision by the ma...
The shame of having treated the black race like cattle they were trading? (10) Caucasian, or Caucasian, is an outmoded anthropological term for a human group that generally encompasses the physical phenotypes of populations in Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, South Ce...
1923: A.C. Gilbert Company chemistry sets Joe Mabel // Wikimedia Commons 1923: A.C. Gilbert Company chemistry sets When A.C. Gilbert Companyintroduced its chemistry set for kids in 1923, it came complete withcyanide and explosives. Fast forward to the 1960s when theHazardous Substances Label...