ALL SPRUCED UP
There’s a lot more to a piano than meets the eye. If you’ve ever poked your head inside that tired old upright in your grandmother’s...
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¿ DECIDE FOR YOURSELF ?
This is the Yes or BS blog, where you can play the game for yourself. Either pick a random story from the pictures below, or choose your specialist subject from the categories listed here. Just read the story through and decide whether, YES, you think it’s true, or no, you think it’s total B.S—then click you answer in the box at the bottom of each post to see if you’re correct.
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DON’T MAKE ME LAUGH!
If you like a bit of obscure history, you might have heard of the so-called “Dancing Plague” of 1518, in which a maniacal fit of dancing...
GOLD COAST
We all know about official state birds, state trees, state flowers, and the like. There are even official state dances (spoiler alert: 25...
WHEN HALLEY PET SALLY
Sir Edmond Halley: His dog was even better at astronomy than him (Wikimedia Commons) In 1682, the astronomer Sir Edmond Halley correctly...
BOOM AND BUST
The Machs Factor: a sonic boom (Pixabay) In February 1964, NASA and the US Federal Aviation Administration began conducting what they...
MAN OF THE MATCH
The modern friction match was invented by the English chemist and inventor John Walker in 1826. Before then, pocket matches were...
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