history

Do Trojans Defend?

business

I’m confused why a company would choose the Trojans as their symbol. I’ve tried to create a logical analogy between modern condoms and the ancient battle between the Greeks and the Trojans: The Greeks embodied a man and the Trojans personified a woman, the wooden exterior of the horse would have symbolized a condom, the [...]

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The First Romeo and Juliet

history

It’s sad to say, but couples in interracial relationships today still encounter ignorant xenophobes.As difficult as they seem to be, they compare nothing to the challenges faced by our ancestors. In 1999, an archeologist in Portugal discovered a 24,500 years old hybrid skeleton created by a Neanderthal (Homo neanderthalenis) and a Cro-Magnon(Homo sapien). Inter-species relationships [...]

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The Sun Viking Hotel

history

The last time I went to the beach, I stayed at The Sun Viking Hotel, which had an enormous 50 foot, gaudy, plaster Viking statue in the parking lot. It was a family hotel, and a bunch of kids were running around with souvenir axes and horned helmets. How cute? Then I remembered back to [...]

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A Riddle

history

Q. What do all these individuals have in common? Clara Barton, Walt Whitman, Thomas Edison, Vince Lombardi, Alexander Hamilton, and Grover Cleveland. A. Washington got a bridge, Lincoln got a tunnel, but these “lucky” folks are immortalized in the form of rest stops on the New Jersey Turnpike (click here). What an honor. Although, I [...]

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Paul Revere’s job would have been easier with MySpace

history

The historical “Midnight Ride” would have been known as the “Midnight Post”. Instead of “ridin’ across the land, kickin’ up sand”, he could have simply posted a MySpace bulletin to his 16,000 “friends”. But now that I think of it, that probably wouldn’t have been that effective since you can only view five bulletins at [...]

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