Carolann's Newsletters

Dear Friends, Tangents: Happy Friday. January 31, 2001: Scottish court sitting in the Netherlands convicted one Libyan and acquitted a second

Dear Friends, Tangents: Happy Friday Eve.  Holiday of the Three Hierarchs, Greece. January 30, 1963: Coca-Cola introduces its first diet soda, Tab,

Dear Friends, Tangents: Today is Lunar New Year.  Even if you grew up celebrating this day, you might not know the reasons

Dear Friends, Tangents: January 28, 1986: Challenger Space Shuttle explosion, 73 seconds after liftoff from Cape Canaveral, killing all seven crew members. 

Dear Friends, Tangents: Happy Monday.  It’s International Holocaust Remembrance Day. January 27,1880 American inventor Thomas Edison receives a patent for the incandescent

Dear Friends, Tangents: Happy Friday. January 24, 1935: The first canned beer is sold by the Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company, revolutionizing the