Adolf Hitler makes his first radio broadcast as German Chancellor, February 1933. Hitler spoke of peace in Europe while preparing his country for war. (Detail of image courtesy Bundesarchiv) …speaking of Janet Flanner, apparently her “Paris Letter” implied that the author Edna Ferber had ...
The Cape Town Stadium – a football and rugby union stadium in Cape Town, South Africa, was built for the 2010 FIFA World Cup™. Due to minimal post-event usage of the facility, it has earned the tag of ‘white elephant’. The venue went on to prove skeptics correct who had a lot...
The first New Year's Eve special on television was broadcast on December 31, 1941 on WNBT New York, and consisted of entertainment broadcast from the Rainbow Room, atop the RCA Building in New York's Rockefeller Center.[3] Due to World War II, there would be no more New Year's Eve ...
A beloved classic, "Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood" first graced televisions in 1963 on CBC as "Misterogers," The broadcast moved to its home on PBS in 1968. An ordained Presbyterian minister, Fred Rogers invited a generation of America’s youth to be kind and compassionate to themselves and on...
The Hughes people did bid to get pro football's Monday-night package, and when they lost out to ABC there were great wheezes of relief along Broadcast Row. As one uneasy executive said: "We don't know what Hughes is up to, but we think of him as a snake lying under a rock." ...
the East Coast brewer cornered the market when it became the first to add hops throughout the entire fermenting process. To perfect the 90-minute boil by adding just the right amount of hops throughout, the brew crew used a vibrating tabletop football game duct-taped to a ladder above ...
A beloved classic, "Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood" first graced televisions in 1963 on CBC as "Misterogers," The broadcast moved to its home on PBS in 1968. An ordained Presbyterian minister, Fred Rogers invited a generation of America’s youth to be kind and compassionate to themselves and on...
A deep blanket of snow often covers New England in the winter. But there’s adventure to be found in the frozen landscape, with its steep mountains and frozen ponds—and not just for skiers and snowboarders. This route blazes a unique path through Massac
Going With the Flow “We had the horse and buggy. We had the automobile. Now we have the first real motor car in history.”— Walter P. Chrysler. (Image: Blair Bunting via hagerty.com) Classic motorcar collector and aficionadoJay Lenohas more than 180 vehicles in his collection, but a...
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