Posted on August 4, 2024
| 3 minutes
| 535 words
| Billy Koelling
My first bite of KFC’s Double Down made me question why I ever used bread for sandwiches. By replacing the bun with two fried chicken breasts and putting bacon, cheese and glorified Thousand Island dressing in between, this culinary invention made me feel, for perhaps the first time in my sandwich-eating life, completely free — my fingers greasy, my mouth a mess, my testosterone pumping like Henry VIII eating a turkey leg and demanding a new wife to behead.
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Posted on August 4, 2024
| 1 minutes
| 56 words
| Billy Koelling
Hammacher Schlemmer
Create your own personal Jurassic Park with this 20-ft.-long, $350,000 dinosaur that is capable of recognizing facial features and roaring, stomping and baring its teeth. But you can tell your horrified guests to fear not — the triceratops was strictly an herbivore in its day.
Posted on August 4, 2024
| 1 minutes
| 141 words
| Tandra Barner
The Tar Heels will join South Carolina, Oregon, and Gonzaga in the Final Four on Saturday in Phoenix. South Carolina will play Gonzaga in the first game on CBS, with a 6:09 ET tip-off. Oregon and North Carolina will face off in the second national semifinal about 30 minutes after the first game ends. South Carolina and Gonzaga are in the Final Four for the first time in each school's history.
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Posted on August 4, 2024
| 3 minutes
| 610 words
| Billy Koelling
It’s been ten years since Lauren Conrad, the quintessential Southern California girl we first encountered on Laguna Beach, made her way to Los Angeles to pursue a career in fashion — finding lots and lots of drama along the way — while starring on The Hills.
The Hills was a pivotal show in reality television history, paving the way for Keeping Up with the Kardashians and the Real Housewives franchise. But beyond that, The Hills was ultimately a story about LC, the golden girl next door — her friendships, frenemies, loves and heartbreaks.
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Posted on August 4, 2024
| 21 minutes
| 4295 words
| Kelle Repass
(See Cover) For her parents, at least, the marriage of Maria Hester Monroe was a huge success. That first wedding of a U.S. President’s daughter in 1820 was confined so closely to the family that the ceremony was attended by only 42 guests and reported by the Washington press in 34 words. Subsequent White House brides from Elizabeth Tyler in 1842 to “Princess” Alice Roosevelt-who envisaged a “comparatively quiet family affair” and wound up with 1,000 guests in 1906—have sought with diminishing success to elude the tidal wave of publicity that inevitably engulfs a First Family wedding.
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Posted on August 4, 2024
| 2 minutes
| 270 words
| Billy Koelling
David Umahi, the Minister of Works, made this known while inspecting BUA cement factory in Sokoto on Thursday, February 29, 2024. President Tinubu had recently asked cement manufacturers not to sell a 50kg bag of the product for more than ₦7,000 anywhere in the country. However, in his comment, the Executive Director of BUA Group, Alhaji Kabiru, said the company has been selling a bag of the product at the rate of ₦6000 as part of their commitment to the president’s directive on the price of cement.
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Posted on August 4, 2024
| 2 minutes
| 349 words
| Billy Koelling
Full Name: Herbert Khaury
Profession: Singer and Ukulele Player
Biography: Tiny Tim was an American singer and ukulele player who came to fame in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely due to his hit single "Tiptoe Through the Tulips," a cover of a song originally released in the 1920s. The song, featured on his 1968 debut album, God Bless Tiny Tim, became a pop culture phenomenon, quickly climbing the charts.
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Posted on August 4, 2024
| 6 minutes
| 1276 words
| Patria Henriques
Americans spend vast sums on health care. Certainly, health care is expensive all over the world, and it makes good sense for rich countries to spend large amounts to extend their citizens’ lives and to reduce pain and suffering. But America does this about as badly as it is possible to imagine.
Health care can sometimes harm people, through medical mistakes, or the overprescription of opioids. But there is also harm to people’s lives from its extraordinary and unnecessary costs.
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Posted on August 4, 2024
| 5 minutes
| 859 words
| Tandra Barner
In celebration of the 2024 International Women's Day, we will be taking a trip back to check out some of the classic Afrobeats hits by female artists. These songs dazzled listeners, dominated the soundscape, and inspired future generations of female artists. 1. Weird MC - Ijoya ADVERTISEMENT
Released in 2006 as the lead track for one of Nigeria's hip-hop pioneers Wierd MC's second album 'After Da Storm'.
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