Carolann's Newsletters

Dear Friends, Tangents: June 26, 1925 – Edward S. Rogers Sr. invents AC tube which allows world’s first plug-in batteryless radios. James Agate wrote on

Dear Friends, Tangents: June 27, 1980 – ‘O Canada’ is officially proclaimed Canada’s National Anthem. On June 27th, 1787, Edward Gibbon wrote in his Autobiography: Between

Dear Friends, Tangents: 1817 – Bank of Montreal incorporated with £250,000 capital; Canada’s oldest. 200th Year in business 1896 – Wilfrid Laurier leads Liberals to

Dear Friends, Tangents: It’s official – HAPPY SUMMER!!! Sumer is icumen in, Lhude sing cuccu! Growth sed, and bloweth me [meadow] A springeth the wude nu.  

Dear Friends, Tangents: On June 20, 1967, boxer Muhammad Ali was convicted in Houston of violating Selective Service laws by refusing to

Dear Friends, Tangents: On this day in 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were convicted of conspiring to pass atomic secrets to