March 27, 2023 Newsletter
Dear Friends, Tangents: Happy Monday. March 27, 1513: Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon sighted Florida. Go to article > Men’s NCAA tournament Final Four is set. You probably weren’t expecting the brackets to look like this! Here are the […]
March 24, 2023 Newsletter
Dear Friends, Tangents: Happy Friday. March 24th, 1877: The annual university boat race between Oxford and Cambridge ends in a dead heat. 1989: Exxon Valdez oil spill. On March 24, 1989, one of the nation’s worst oil spills occurred as […]
March 23, 2023 Newsletter
Dear Friends, Tangents: Happy Friday Eve. 1994 Wayne Gretzky of the Los Angeles Kings broke Gordie Howe’s National Hockey League career record with his 802nd goal. Go to article > March 23, 2023: First ever tweet by Twitter founder Jack […]
March 22, 2023 Newsletter
Dear Friends, Tangents: Ramadan begins today. March 22,1960: The laser is patented for the first time by Charles Hard Townes and Arthur Leonard Schawlow. However, the term ‘LASER’ is actually an acronym for Light Amplification by Simulated Emission of Radiation, […]
March 21, 2023 Newsletter
Dear Friends, Tangents: March 21, 1963 Alcatraz prison in San Francisco Bay was emptied of its last inmates. Go to article > March 21,2006: the social media site Twitter is founded. March 21,1965: Selma, Alabama Civil Rights March. Johann Sebastien […]