Having a hard time coming up with a Halloween costume this year? Here’s a few ideas and/or links that are loaded with great ideas and pictures… Missing? You could go as a Republican… Gotta support the team…. Zoidberg? You could simply do what...
George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr. designed and built the original wheel for the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. The Ferris Wheel was the Chicago expositions answer to the 1889 Paris exposition’s Eiffel Tower. The original Ferris Wheel consisted of 36...
Last time we were at the Chicago World’s Fair we toured the area in the red rectangle. This time we’re going to head north away from the Grand Basin. Since we’re already familiar with the top of the Liberal Arts Building, let’s go back up there...
The World’s Columbian Exposition was held in Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the New World. The Chicago Columbian Exposition was largely designed by Daniel Burnham and Frederick Law Olmsted. The...
With the bailout bill failing to pass the House I began wonder what we are going to do during the Great Depression of aught-eight. Here’ a few suggestions. You could: Read The Grapes of Wrath Move to Canada. I hear Vancouver’s nice. Become a scrapper,...
It makes me giggle to think of Roger sitting in front of his battery-powered tv, realizing how little people think of him after he lied to Congress… Estranged former Yankee Roger Clemens was “heartbroken” when his former team left him out of Sunday...
