Carolann's Newsletters

Dear Friends, Tangents: Happy Friday. 1961~Berlin Wall erected. On Aug. 13, 1961, Berlin was divided as East Germany sealed off the border

Dear Friends, Tangents: UN World Youth Day. 1851 Isaac Singer was granted a patent on his sewing machine.  Go to article » August

Dear Friends, Tangents: Night of the shooting Stars ~Perseid Meteor Showers. 1965~Watts Riot, Los Angeles: On Aug. 11, 1965, deadly rioting and looting

Dear Friends, Tangents: The Perseid meteor shower began a couple of weeks ago and will continue through August 24th, with the peak

Dear Friends, Tangents: In 1945, an atomic bomb is dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, containing plutonium manufactured at Hanford, north of Richland. Just

Dear Friends, Tangents: Happy Friday. On Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, that instantly killed