History of groundhog day, The history of this now American tradition stems from pagan and Christian holidays brought over from Europe that looked to hibernating animals to signal the end of winter. The Germans used hedgehogs as their weather guides. In Pennsylvania, early American settlers found groundhogs, not hedgehogs, and the forecasting began in...
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Mumbai News, Three explosions rocked India’s busy financial capital at rush-hour Wednesday, killing at least eight people and injuring 70 in what officials described as another terror attack on the city hit by a major attack by militants nearly three years ago. “We can confirm three blasts,” police control room officer Madhuri Waghare said....
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Republican Jon Huntsman, the former U.S. ambassador to China, entered his party’s 2012 presidential race on Tuesday pledging to make “hard decisions” to prevent America sinking into a debt disaster. The former governor of Utah, Huntsman, 51, is lagging in polls of Republicans but has a high profile in the media and worries the...
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Dozens of high school students are participating in the ACT Boot Camp, which is being offered this week in Newport. Co-owners Mark Treas and Rhett Barbour told The Kentucky Enquirer that the camp is more about how to better take the test to raise scores, not on how to improve knowledge in subject areas,...
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One person was killed and four others injured during a wild shooting on a packed Boardwalk in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, on Thursday afternoon. According to the authorities, a gunman opened fire on the Boardwalk near Brighton Sixth Street about 5:20 p.m., gravely wounding a man and a woman; the woman died at Coney Island...
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This year’s Oklahoma version will mark the 14th time a D-Day style paintball game has been staged. In one of the largest paintball games in the world, some 3,000 people in Oklahoma will relive the events of June 6, 1944, D-Day, when German-occupied France was invaded by Allied Forces, marking a turning point in...
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The Indian-American from South Abington, Penn. Sukanya Roy, 14, took the top place from runner-up Laura Newcombe when she correctly spelled the word ‘cymotrichous’ – which relates to wavy hair. Sukanya, 14, will take home more than $40,000 in cash and prizes. She is now the fourth consecutive Indian-American to take the title at...
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North Carolina – Archaeologists on Friday raised an anchor from the Queen Anne’s Revenge, the ship that pirate Blackbeard and his crew intentionally grounded off the North Carolina coast in 1718. Queen Anne’s Revenge was originally a French slave ship that Blackbeard and his band captured in the fall of 1717. Blackbeard, an Englishman...
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) blogged about preparing for disaster and reminded readers that in the event of a zombie apocalypse, basic preparedness will help even if there are flesh-eaters roaming. The CDC recommends that planning ahead for zombies is really no different than preparing for other types of disaster. Planning...
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Don Gorske was honored after reaching the meaty milestone during a ceremony at a McDonald’s in his hometown of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Surely McDonald’s most loyal customer, Guinness World Records recognized Gorske’s feat three years and 2,000 Big Macs ago, and the 57-year-old says he has no desire to stop. “I plan on...
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