The Wheel
Sunday, June 10, 2007

Great Lakes Tour

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Niagara-on-the-Lake ( see more ) On the road for three thousand, three hundred miles in eight days! No two nights in the same place. That ...
Saturday, May 12, 2007

The mystery of the 5-cent Coca-Cola

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The price of the first serving of Coca-Cola was 5 cents in 1886, about a dollar in today's money. Coke no longer sells for a nickel, and...
Tuesday, May 8, 2007

Frontier counties

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The 2000 census found more "frontier counties" - that is, counties with six or fewer people per square mile - in Kansas now than i...
Tuesday, May 1, 2007

Black gold

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"Even with high oil prices, Saudi Arabia's annual per capita income, at $14,000, is only about half that of oil-free Israel." ...
Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Talk is cheap

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Sending data on the first trans-Atlantic telegraph cable cost $10 a word -- in 1866. Wired, February, 2007
Sunday, January 7, 2007

Harper's Index

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83: Annual budget of Miami's police department, expressed as a percentage of the production cost of the film Miami Vice. Harper's M...
Friday, December 22, 2006

Merry TubaChristmas

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Dallas celebrated its twenty-ninth annual Tuba Christmas at noon Friday in Thanksgiving Square. And we were there ! One hundred eighty se...
Sunday, November 26, 2006

Rice Bowl

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Rice Bowl. Those two words have not been used in the context of Rice University and football bowl games since 1961. John F. Kennedy was Pres...
Sunday, October 29, 2006

"Blow My Face Off"

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Berkner High School's "Mighty Ram Band" advanced to the Texas state marching contest last night at the Area C finals.
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Saturday, October 7, 2006

Berkner's Streak Ends

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The Berkner Rams lost a regular-season football game Friday night. That hasn't happened since September 24, 2004, a span of 20 games and...
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