Alert readers (ARs) of a certain age who are also fans of country music may recall a song recorded in 1971 by Steve Goodman titled, “You Never Even Called Me By My Name.” It was more famously recorded by David Allan Coe in 1975 and is perhaps best remembered its list of subjects that must be included in the

Most alert readers surely know that in 1904 St. Louis hosted The Louisiana Purchase Exposition, commonly known as The World’s Fair; and in the same year we hosted the first Olympic Games ever held outside Europe. I suspect fewer ARs know that in that same year the Democratic National Convention

This column is going to press during Passover, which ran from the evening of April 22nd until sunset on April 29th (inside Israel) or April 30th (outside Israel). As most alert readers (ARs) already know, for thousands of years this has commemorated the liberation of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt.

June 1, 1943, Rip Sewell, a pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates, threw a blooper pitch in a game against the Boston Braves at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh. After the game Sewell’s teammate outfielder Maurice Van Robays dubbed it “an eephus pitch.” When asked what “eephus” meant, Robays replied, “Eephus ain’t nothing

The first Olympic Games were held in 776 BCE in the religious sanctuary of Olympia in honor of Zeus, the greatest of the Greek Gods. Like his fellow gods and goddesses Zeus lived on ambrosia and nectar, which were delicious and provided both nutrition and immortality. In the second century BCE Rome conquered