Changes to Site / Updates

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For the convenience of repeat visitors to my site, this page will indicate changes to links, site pages and date(s) changes made.

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04/15/10 - Created Bloody Battles page and added content; Created New Orleans page, and added content; Created How the Corporations Broke Ralph Nader and America, Too page, and added content; Added "Wallace Fard Muhammad, Founder of the Nation of Islam" to Islam.

04/13/10 - Added Weather Channel Icon to the bottom of each page - type a zip code, and check the weather in a selected area; Added "The Original Name of Some MLB Teams" to A Brief History of Baseball; Added "Car Air Filters" and "Dishwashers" to Save A Buck; Added "True Colors" to Pot Pourri.

04/09/10 - Created Ten Popes Who Died Violently page, and linked to Religion; Added "National Poetry Month" to Literature; Added "eBay" to Technology.

04/03/10 - Added "Some Tidbits About Easter" to Easter; Added "The Most Infamous Photo From the Vietnam War" to Vietnam.

03/31/10 - Added "More April Fool's Day Stuff" and additional content to April Fool's Day; Added "More About Julius Ceasar" to Ancient Rome; Added additional content to "Giraffes", in Animal Planet; Added "More Irish Stuff" to Ireland; Added "The Battle of Gettysburg" to Civil War Tidbits.

03/24/10 - Added photos of Beverly, Elisabeth & Myrna to Photo Gallery.

03/09/10 - Added "More Academy Stuff" to The Academy Awards; Added "Mary Parker Follett-"The Prophet of Management" Women in American History; Created U.S.Government Programs page and included "Social Security Begins", "The History of Medicare and Medicaid", "Medicare and the Neo-Cons"; Added "Can We Afford to Maintain Ancient Prejudices Against Islam ?" to Islam; Added "More Stuff About Womens' History Month" to Women's History - U. S. and the World.

03/04/10 - Added additional content to The Olympic Games; Added "Karl Marx/Communism" to Historical Myths, Lies and Untruths (World); Added additional content to "Bizarre Crimes", in Bizarre Stuff.

02/25/10 - Added "William Shakespeare" to Profiles In Literature; Added "The Winter Olympics" to The Olympic Games; Added "Jousting Tournaments" to Medieval History; Added additional content to Financial Trivia; Added additional content to Inventors/Inventions.

02/15/10 - Created Presidents' Day page, and added content; Created Site Contents & Links page (still under construction).

02/09/10 - Created Historical Myths, Lies & Untruths (World) page, and added content; Added "Influential Silent Films" to The Birth of the Movies; Added "The First Black Senator" to African-American Profiles; Added "Pandas" to Mammals; Added additional content to hair, the heart, and muscles in The Human Body.

02/06/10 - Added "More Super Bowl Stuff" to Football; Added additional content to "Dimes", in Financial Trivia; Created The Rules of Duels page, added content, and linked to Individual Presidential Trivia and American History Tidbits; Added "Publishing" to The Media; Added additional content to Literature; Added "PENNSYLVANIA" to United States Geography; Added "More About Dr. Woodson" to Black History Month - Carter G. Woodson; Added additional content to Ancient Chinese History.

02/03/10 - Added "1955 - Disneyland Opens" to Walt Disney Studios; Added "Elvis and Me" to Literature; Added "The Federal Reserve" to Financial Trivia; Added image to "The Fart Files", in Humor; Added "Past Adventures In Afghanistan" to Asia; Added image to The Human Body.

01/31/10 - Added additional content to "Pirate Trivia", in Pirates; Added additional content to Bushisms; Added "Who Takes Over When the President Dies?" to U.S.Presidents; Created Inauguration Day / State of the Union page, and added content; Added "The Myth of Rotten Meat" to Medieval History; Created A Medieval Christmas page, and added content.

01/28/10 - Added "About the Olympics" to The Olympics Games; Added "The Joy of Paying Taxes" to Government; Added Vincent Van Gogh to The Arts; Added "More Beethoven" to Icons of Classical Music; Added John Nash to The Nobel Prize; Added Helen Keller and Christy Brown to Profiles In Literature; Added Ink Stains, Shaving, Washing Red Clothes, & Washing Socks to Helpful Tips; Added Certificates of Deposit, Credit Cards, Lint Filters, Loan Consolidation, Rainwriter, Treasury Bills, & whiter teeth to Save A Buck.

01/26/10 - Added additional content, "the Beatles last show", to The Beatles; Added "Bizarre Crimes" and "Bizarre Insurance Claims" to Bizarre Stuff; Added "1903- The First Silent Movie" to Birth of the Movies; Added "Cary Grant / Alfred Hitchcock" to Movie Profiles; Added additional content to The American Revolution; Added additional content to Business Quotes and Political Quotes; Added "Gregori Rasputin - the Mad Monk" and "Attila the Hun" to Bad Boys (and Girls), Brigands, Outlaws, and Scamps; Added additional content to "Labor Tidbits" in Employment/Labor History; Added Bicycles, Cellophane Tape,Emergencies, and Hamburgers to Helpful Tips; Added Bicycles to Save a Buck; Added additional content to Ireland.

01/22/10 - Added "Child Actors" to Television; Added Dangerous Herbivores page & linked to Animal Planet; Added additional content about Andrew Jackson to Individual Presidential Trivia; Added "Bugs on Windshield", Headache, Plastic Wrap, and Vinegar to Helpful Tips; Added Aluminum Foil, Non-Grocery Items, and Store Brands to Save a Buck; Added "Classical Tidbits" to Icons of Classical Music; Added additional content regarding Aristotle to Ancient Greece.

01/18/10 - Added "Martin Luther King Through the Years" to Martin Luther King, Jr.; Added "Victor" to Photo Gallery.

01/17/10 - Added additional content regarding Ben Franklin as a security risk to Benjamin Franklin; Added "More About Bach" to Icons of Classical Music; Added additional content to 'Leonardo da Vinci", in The Arts; Added Interesting Facts About the Scythians page, & linked to Ancient History; Added "Wedding Trivia" to Marriage Traditions.

01/15/10 - Added content & poem, "My Mother's House", to A Memorial to My Mother; Added additional content to "Nobel Trivia", in The Nobel Prize; Added "Cheese" to Food, Drink Trivia; Added additional content to "Miscellaneous Tidbits" to Law/Justice; Added additional content to "Health, Medical Trivia", in Health/Medicine; Added additional content to Golf.

01/10/10 - Added additional content to "Bananas" (Fruit) in Food, Drink Trivia; Added Boxing Day page & linked to Holidays; Added "Club 33" to Walt Disney Studios; Added "Cleaning the Bathtub" & additional content to "Club Soda" in Helpful Tips.

01/05/10 - Added Sir Francis Drake, Black Beard, Black Bart, Henry Avery, John Taylor, and Pier Heyn to Pirates; Added additional content to The Vikings - A Brief Overview; Added "Table Tennis" to Sports.

01/03/10 - Added Elmer McCurdy, Talat Pasha, Sawney Beane, Gilles de Rais, Godfrey of Bouillon & Basil the Bulgar Slayer to Bad Boys (& Girls), Brigands, Outlaws & Scamps; Added "Anarchists" to Party Politics; Created How Numbers Lie page and linked to Politics and Site Navigation Bar; Added "Pirate Benefits " to Pirates.

01/01/10 - Added "The Lincoln Highway" to America Gets Its Wheels; Added "Monsoons" to The Weather; Added additional content to "The Sun", in The Milky Way; Added content regarding "Homer, author of 'The Iliad' & 'The Odyssey', to Ancient Greece & Literature.

12/27/09 - Added additional content to "Miscellaneous Tidbits", in Outer Space/Space Travel; Added "Insulation" to Save A Buck; Added additional content to "Napoleon Bonaparte Trivia", in France; Added "Club Soda", "Peanut Butter", "Rusty Knives" & "Wooden Doors" to Helpful Tips; Added additional content to The History of Coca Cola; Added a quote attributed to Warren Buffett to Business Quotes; Added additional content to The Human Body; Added "More Chanukah Tidbits" to Hanukkah / Yom Kippur; Added additional content to Health / Medicine; Added "STARFISH" to Aquatic Life; Added "Wood Frogs" to Reptiles.

12/25/09 - Added additional content to Native American History; Added "The Peanuts Gang", "How The Grinch Stole Christmas" and "History of Some Popular Nursery Rhymes" to Literature; Added "The Wizard of Oz" to More Movie Trivia.

12/08/09 - Added "The Ides of March and the Assassination of Julius Caesar" to Ancient Rome; Added "Ancient Greece, Parts I & II" to Ancient Greece; Added "North Korea" to Asia.

12/03/09 - Added "Civil Rights Activities of the 1950s and 1960s" and "The Civil Rights Act of 1964" to The Civil Rights Movement; Added "The Murder of Emmett Till" and "The Murders of 3 Civil Rights Workers in 1964" to Civil Rights Deaths.

11/30/09 - Added "The Taliban" to Bad Boys (& Girls), Brigands, Outlaws & Scamps; Added America Gets Its Wheels to Site Navigation Bar, & included "The Tale of The Big Three", "How America got Its Wheels", "How General Motors Took The Lead", "The Future of Cars?" & "Black Tires"; Added "The Great Depression" to American History Tidbits; Added "The Roots of Arab-Israeli Rage" to Conflict in the Middle East; Added "Random Stuff About Opera" to Music.

11/19/09 - Added "Angels We Have Heard On High", "Silent Night", & "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" to History of 3 Beloved Christmas Carols.

11/17/09 - Added War page to Site Navigation Bar and included "Who Fights America's Wars", "The Shortest War in History", "The American Revolution", "The War of 1812", "Top 5 Causes of World War I", "December 7, 1941", The Korean War"; Added "Yemen" to The Middle East; Added Southeast Asia page, and included "Indonesia".

11/13/09 - Added "Earth's Greatest Earthquake" to The Weather; Added "What President Obama Is Up Against" to Politics; Added "The Nuclear Age" to Weapons of War; Added additional images to William C.Quantrill: Soldier or Murderer; Added additional content to Bananas, Caked-On Food, Facials, Hair, Hardwood Floors, Mineral Oil, Peppers & Scissors in Helpful Tips.

11/05/09 - Added "Origins of a Few Rock Band Names" to Profiles In Music; Added "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Winnie-the-Pooh" to Literature; Added "Post-Columbus Exploration" to Christopher Columbus/Columbus Day; Added "Sesame Street" to Television Trivia; Added "Write to Manufacturer" to Save A Buck; Added "Real Newspaper Ads" to The Print Media.

10/30/09 - Added "Where Did Trick-or-Treating Come From?" to Halloween; Added additional to "Birthday Celebrations" in Cultural Traditions; Added "History of Medicare and Medicaid" and "Medicare and the Neo-Cons" to History of Health Insurance.

10/29/09 - Added "More Halloween Stuff" to Halloween; Added "Bananas" to Fruit in Food, Drink Trivia; Added "Extra Stuff" (Chile) to South America; Added "Bizarre Facts About Some Monster Movies" to Bizarre Stuff & Movie Trivia, respectively; Added "The TV Dinner" to Inventors/Inventions & Food, Drink Trivia, respectively.

10/28/09 - Added "Pumpkins" to Food, Drink Trivia (Fruit) & also Added licorice, jelly beans, chewing gum, ice cream, choclolate chip cookies, marshmellow peeps & pez to Food, Drink Trivia (Desserts/Sweets); Added "Car Care", "Humidity" & "Shopping" to Save A Buck & changed page font to Arial; Added "Beauty in the Middle Ages" to Medieval History; Added "Early U. S. Coins" to Financial Trivia & changed page font to Arial.

10/24/09 - Added new page: The History of Health Insurance; Added The Nobel Prize to Site Navigation Bar and added "U. S. Presidents Who Won The Nobel Peace Prize" and "Nobel Committee Statement on Awarding Peace Prize to Obama" to page; Added "Chess" to Sports; Added "Herbs" and "Radishes" to Food, Drink Trivia; Added "A New Course Is Needed" to Conflict In The Middle East; Added "Flag Day" to The American Flag.

10/23/09 - Added "Human Body Tidbits" to The Human Body; Added "History of Canada" & "Canadian Elections" to Canada; Added "Milestone Supreme Court Cases" to The Supreme Court; Added "Oh, the Irony!" to Pot Pourri; Added "Slang From Various Decades" to Origins of Popular Phrases; Added "Tequila" to Food/Drink Trivia.

10/20/09 - Added "The Great Wall" to Ancient Chinese History; Added additional content to Cultural Traditions, Dinosaurs, Basketball, Baseball, Football, & Ronald Reagan: A Different View; Added "Toothpaste" to Pot Pourri; Added "Bizarre Insurance Claims" to Bizarre Stuff; Added "Celebrating Birthdays" to Cultural Traditions.

10/17/09 - Added Child Abuse to Site Navigation Bar (thanks to Connie for submitting); Added Bowling, Ice hockey, Tennis & Tour de France to Sports.

10/16/09 - Added Pot Pourri page to Site Navigation Bar, and included "UFO Sightings"; Added additional content to "Minnesota", in United States Geography; Added "Some Stuff About Dinosaurs" to Dinosaurs; Added "Requirements to Become President" to U. S. Presidents; Added "Bowling" to Sports.

10/14/09 - Added "The Secret Service" to Government; Added "Additional Uses for WD-40" to Helpful Tips (bottom of page); Added additional content to "Baseball Details" & "Baseball's Greatest Myth" to Baseball, linked to Sports; Deleted content dated from 7/19/04 to 10/8/06 on Changes/Updates.

10/13/09- Added additional content to Groucho Marx; Added content to "Maryland", "Michigan", "Oklahoma", and changed font to "Arial" in United States Geography; Added Air Freshener, Aluminum Foil, Bacon, Bacon Soda, Bleach, Hard Boiled Eggs, Laundry, Sealed Envelopes, Tomatoes, Toothpaste and changed font to "Arial" in Helpful Tips; Added A Brief History of Los Angeles page & linked to History and United States Geography.

10/08/09 - Added "Eyeglasses" to Inventors/Inventions; Added additional content to "Movie Tidbits" / Movie Trivia; Added "What Some Movies Were Almost Called" to Movie Trivia; Added additional content to Save a Buck.

10/01/09 - Added 4 additional photos to Photo Gallery; Added MitchMan Thru the Years page/link and added several photos; Added Origins of Popular Phrases page/link; Added additional content to "Volleyball", on Sports page.

09/28/09 - Added "Baseball's Greatest Myth" to Historical Myths, Lies & Untruths and Sports / Baseball; Added personal photograph(s) to Baseball & Football; Added "Neckties" to CulturalTraditions; Added "More Credit Cards" to Financial Trivia.

07/23/09 - Added GUARD AGAINST RAPE page/link ; Added "Butterflies" to Insects, Bugs Added to Animal Planet; Added "Soft Drinks" to Food, Drink Trivia.

06/15/09 - Added "Treasury Bills" and "Certificates of Deposit" to Financial Trivia; Added "Think Before You Speak" to Adult Humor.

05/31/09 - Added "ODE TO AN ALL-AMERICAN GIRL" to "MITCH'S COMPOSITIONS" / Compositions #1; Added additional content to Helpful Tips and Save A Buck; Added content to SPECIAL OCCASIONS.

11/28/08 - Added "Male or Female" to Glad I'm A Woman / Man .

08/31/08 - Added The Civil Rights Movement to Site Navigation Bar and included "A Look Back" and "The Civil Rights Movement Timeline"; Added "Catch 22" to Literature.

08/30/08 - Added "How Cold Can It Get?" to The Weather; Added "Trial By Jury" to Law/Justice; Added image of new One Dollar Bill to Financial Trivia; Added Russia page; Added additional content to Save A Buck, to Inventors/Inventions and to Helpful Tips.

08/10/08 - Added "Cheating at the Ancient Olympics" to A History of the Olympics; Added "More Interesting Olympic Facts" to The Olympic Games.

08/06/08 - Added "The seventh-inning stretch" to Baseball; Added "Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address" to Historical Myths, Lies & Untruths; Added "Bizarre Sporting Failures" and "Bizarre Ad Translations" to Bizarre Stuff; Added "Buying in Bulk, Cell Phones, Credit Cards & Gasoline" to Save A Buck; Added "More King Tut" to Ancient Egypt.

07/20/08 - Added additional content (A Few Chocolate Facts) to Food, Drink Trivia; Added "Ted Radcliffe" to A Brief History of African-Americans in Organized Baseball: Added additional content (Beluga Whales) to Mammals; Added "Lizards" to Reptiles; Added "Blinds/Window Shades" & "Carpets" to Helpful Tips; Added additional content, "Bees", to Insects, Bugs.

06/29/08 - Added "How Golf is like Urinating in a Public Restroom" to Golf; Added "Meet the Shi'ites" to Islam; Added "Palestinian Genocide" to Conflict in the Middle East; Added additional content to The Beatles, Television Trivia and Movie Trivia.

06/22/08 - Added "Minnie Dean" to Infamous Crimes; Added "Credit Score" and "Rubber Bands" to Save A Buck; Added additional content to The Media, Baseball, Golf, Law/Justice and The Academy Awards; Added "Minor v. Happersett" to Law/Justice and Women In American History; Added "Old Age Is A Gift" to Profound; Added "Why Did Hatshepsut Become King?" to Ancient Egypt; Added "A Bit About Aristotle" to Ancient Greece; Changed page designs of most of sports pages linked to Sports; Added "Mona Lisa",and image, to The Arts.

06/16/08 - Created The Vice President of the United States page and added content; Created Central America page and added "Nicaragua"; Added "Bizarre Work Excuses" to Bizarre Stuff and Humor on the Job; Added "Even More Church Bulletin Bloopers" to Religious Humor; Added additional content (Music Tidbits) to Music; Added "Who Really Rules Iran?" to Iran; Added "3 Mythic Mounts" to Ancient History; Changed page design of Pot Pourri and The Nobel Prize.

06/13/08 - Added "Jesus Born In a Cave" to RELIGIOUS TRIVIA, Religion; Added "Bizarre Humans" to Bizarre Stuff; Added "Baking Soda, Garlic, Ink Stains, Jammed Zippers, New Tires and Vaseline" to Inventors/Inventions; Added "President William McKinley Assassinated" to Presidential Trivia; Added "First Journey Around the World" to World History and Trivia; Added additional content to Ancient Chinese History; Added content to "Texas" and "Alaska", Geography.

06/12/08 - Added "Top Ten Questions President Bush Asked The Dalai Lama" to More George Bush; Added "Doris Lessing" to The Nobel Prize; Added "Coca Cola Advertising Slogans" to The History of Coca Cola; Added additional content to "Italy", Europe; Added additional content to "Historic Goodies", London, England; Added additional content to "Educational Tidbits", Education; Added additional content (Refrigerators) to Save A Buck; Added additional content to Inventors/Inventions; Created Iran page.

05/31/08 - Added "The Lost Ark" to Ancient History; Added "A World Without Islam" to Islam; Added "Insulin Discovered in 1922" to Science; Added additional content to "Mouthwash", in Helpful Tips; Added "Claudius" to Ancient Rome; Added "Alessandra Giliani" to Medieval History.

05/27/08 - Added "The St. Valentine's Day Massacre" to Infamous Crimes; Added "A Foray into Fascism" to Creeping Fascism; Added additional content to "Jupiter", The Milky Way; Added additional content ("Spiders") to Insects, Bugs; Added "Beirut" to The Middle East; Added additional content (TV Tidbits)to Television Trivia; Added additional content (Milton Berle) to Television Trivia.

05/25/08 - Added "What Speech Isn't Free?" to The Supreme Court; Added "Profiles of Those Who Fart" to Humor; Added "The Terror That Begot Israel" to Conflict in the Middle East; Added "More Pancho Villa" to Hispanic / Latino History; Added additional content about astronauts to Space Travel Tidbits; Added "Mouthwash" to Helpful Tips; Added "Spware" to Computer Trivia; Added additional content (CPR survival rate) to Health/Medicine; Added 'Nightmare' to "Definitions", in English Language Facts and Trivia.

05/20/08 - Added "Debt", and other content, to Save A Buck; Added "Shaving Cuts" to Helpful Tips; Added content to Ancient Chinese History; Added "Dingoes" and changed page design of Mammals; Added additional content to "Presidential Tidbits", in Presidential Trivia.

05/18/08 - Created new page: America Gets Its Wheels, and added content; Changed page design and added additional content to The Academy Awards; Added "Intelligence Tests" to Education; Added "King of Kings" and "Dirty Harry" to Movie Tidbits, Movie Trivia; Added "Diamonds" to Financial Trivia; Added additional content to "The Sun" in The Milky Way; Added "Franz Liszt" to Icons of Classical Music; Added "The Telephone" to Inventors/Inventions; Added "Coffee on the Brain" to The Human Brain; Added "Raphael" to The Arts; Added additional content (outhouses) to Cultural Traditions; Changed page design of Native American Profiles.

05/15/08 - Added "A Look Back" to The Civil Rights Movement; Added "Space Shuttle Re-entry" and changed page design of Space Travel; Added "Armenia" to World History and Trivia; Changed page design of Ancient Egypt.

05/12/08 - Changed page design of New Year's Eve / Day; Added "Remember the Alamo" to The Old West: History and Trivia; Created The Human Brain page, and added content; Added "The Partridge Family" to Television Trivia; Added additional content to United States Geography; Added "The Seven Years' War" to World History and Trivia; Added "Caffeine" to Food, Drink Trivia; Added

04/30/08 - Added "Top Ten Ways George W. Bush Can Improve His Approval Rating" and "Top Ten Signs President Bush Has Too Much Time On His Hands" to More George Bush; Added "12 Space Shuttle Moments" to Space Travel Tidbits; Added "Big News Gets Bigger" to The Print Media, and to Benjamin Franklin; Added "Egypt" and "Kenya" to Africa and "Afghanistan" to Asia; Added "CITRIC FRUIT RINDS" and "GREASE STAINS ON CARPET" to Helpful Tips; Added "Meanings of Phrases" to English Language Facts and Trivia.

04/26/08 - Created More George Bush page and added "Top Ten Questions President Bush Asked The Pope" and "Top Ten Things Overheard on George W. Bush's Trip to The Middle East"; Added "A Day for Patriots" to American History Tidbits; Added "Hurricane Basics" and "Tornadoes" to Hurricanes vs. Tornadoes; Added "Iran" to The Middle East; Added "Saturn's Rings" to The Milky Way; Added "Meet Queen Elizabeth" and "Historic Goodies" to London, England.

04/23/08 - Added "Debunking Modern Myths About the Middle Ages" to Historical Myths, Lies & Untruths; Added "Oktoberfest" to Culture; Added "Professional Fools" to World History and Trivia; Created The Middle East page, and added "Pakistan"; Created Asia page, and added "Indonesia"; Added "Spain" to Europe; Added "Ancient Babylon" to Ancient History.

04/17/08 - Added additional Teddy Roosevelt content to "Presidential Assassinations and Assassination Attempts", in Presidential Trivia; Added "More About Einstein" to Physics; Added "Extoplanets" to Outer Space; Added "Mesopotamia" to Ancient History; Added "Mayonnaise" to Helpful Tips; Added content about the White Cliffs of Dover to "ENGLAND", in Geography; Added "Great Britain" and "Italy" to Europe.

04/16/08 - Added Ronald Reagan: A Different View to Site Navigation Bar; Added "Rise and Fall of the Inca Sun" to South America; Added "The First Marathon" to Ancient Greece and Military II; Added Stay Healthy, and substantial content, to Site Navigation Bar; Added "Martian Ice" to The Milky Way; Added "Tyrannosaurus Klutz" to Dinosaurs.

04/12/08 - Added additional content to Save A Buck and Helpful Tips; Added content regarding westerns, on Television Trivia; Added "The Bermuda Triangle" to Geography; Added note regarding 24-carat gold to "Gold", on Financial Trivia; Added "The AK-47" to Weapons of War; Added "The Ancient Mayans" and "The Aztecs" to Mexico; Added "Mules" to Mammals, linked to Animal Planet; Changed page design of Native American History.

04/07/08 - Addeded additional content to Cultural Traditions, Food, Drink Trivia and Employment / Labor History; Added Party Politics, and content; Added "Vitamin C" and "Athlete's Foot" to Helpful Tips; Added "America's Worst President", "The Assassination of James A. Garfield", "Tecumseh's Curse", "Adams and Jefferson" to Presidential Trivia.

04/01/08 - Changed page design of Space Travel Tidbits; Added additional content regarding watches to Units of Measurement / Time; Added additional content to Bizarre Stuff (Bizarre Inventions), to Food, Drink Trivia (Honey, Salt), to Aquatic Life (Lobsters) to Birds to Units of Measurement / Time (Watches); Added South America page and content.

03/26/08 - Changed page design of The Human Digestive System, African-American History, The Nuclear Age and Martin Luther King, Jr.; Added additional content to Save A Buck; Added additional content to The Earth ("Mysteries of the Earth"); Added additional content to Geography (Sahara Desert/Africa); Added Europe,and page content; Added additional content to Literature (Pot Pourri) and Physics; Deleted "What Is an American?" from Site Navigation bar and added to American History Tidbits.

03/23/08 - Added Save A Buck, and content, to Site Navigation bar; Added additional content to United States Geography, Movie Trivia; Added "Pharoah Ants" to Insects, Bugs; Added "BEE STINGS", "CAR AIR FRESHENERS", "CHEWING GUM" & "LISTERINE" to Helpful Tips; Added "Aristotle's Ethics for Everyone", "More Plato" & "Socrates" to Ancient Greece.

03/17/08 - Added "An Irish Blessing" & "More on the Irish Potato Famine" to Ireland; Changed page design & added "Definitions" to English Language Facts and Trivia; Added additional content, "naming hurricanes" to Hurricanes Added additional content to "Michigan", in Geography.

03/16/08 - Added "Election 1824: When the Loser Won" & "Election 1876: The Closest Election Ever" to Top 10 Significant Presidential Elections In American History; Added additional content to "Baseball Trivia", in Baseball; Added "Other Historical Myths" to Historical Myths, Lies & Untruths; Added "Revolutionary Tidbits" to The American Revolution; Added "Samuel Johnson - Doctor Dictionary" to Literature; Changed page design of What Liberals Stand For; Added pictures to Pirates & "The West Wing" Quotes.

03/14/08 - Added Dinosaurs to Site Navigation bar; Added additional content to "A Few Football Tidbits" in Football; Added "Does the Constitution Really Guarantee Privacy?" to The United States Constitution; Added "The Barbary Pirates" to Pirates; Added Bad Boys (& Girls), Brigands, Outlaws & Scamps to Site Navigation bar; Added The Great White Shark page and linked to Aquatic Life; Added "Colonial Cuba" to Cuba & linked to Geography.

03/11/08 - Added "Fingers & Toes" to The Human Body; Added "Franklin Roosevelt" to Presidential Profiles; Added "The Seahorse" and "Jellyfish" to Aquatic Life; Added "Bell Bottoms" to Cultural Traditions; Added "Claude Monet" and "The Sistine Ceiling" to The Arts; Added "Oscar Wilde" to Profiles in Literature.

03/10/08 - Changed page design and added content to The Weather; Added additional content, smallest guitar, to Music and Technology; Changed page design and added "History of Clocks" to Units of Measurement / Time Added content and Business Quotes page.

03/05/08 - Added additional content to St. Patrick's Day, Football, Law/Justice, and American History Tidbits; Added pictures "Cousin Enrique" and "3 Dogs" to Hillbilly Family Album; Changed page design of "The West Wing" Quotes.

02/23/08 - Added photographs to Hillbilly Family Album; Added "Mensa" to Education; Added "Woodrow Wilson" to Presidential Profiles; Added "How to Make a Mummy" to Ancient Egypt; Added "Foot Odor" & "Lemon Juice" to Helpful Tips.

02/09/08 - Added additional content to "Mars" in The Milky Way; Added BALL-POINT PENS, COOKIES, DENIM JEANS & SKID MARKS ON LINOLEUM FLOORS to Helpful Tips; Added additional content to Cultural Traditions; Additional content to "Coffee" in Food, Drink Trivia; Added additional content to "Napoleon Bonaparte" in World History and Trivia; Added additional content to "The Lungs" in The Human Body; Added additional content to Television Trivia.

02/06/08 - Added "Davy Crockett's Death at the Alamo", "Jesse James" & "Nero Fiddled While Rome Burned" to Historical Myths, Lies & Untruths; Added "The Star of Bethlehem and the Dating of the Birth of Jesus" to Religion; Added "Bizarre Phobias" to Bizarre Stuff; Added "King Tut" to Ancient Egypt; Changed page design of The Earth.

02/03/08 - Added Origin of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" to Baseball & added additional content to Literature, The Olympic Games, Baseball and Basketball; Added BAKING SODA, RUSTY BOLTS, SILVERWARE, TOOTHPASTE & WASHING CLOTHES to Helpful Tips; Added "Million Dollar Bill (Counterfeit History)" to Financial Trivia.

11/21/07 - Added "Beowulf" to Literature; Added "Anglo-Saxon Apartheid?" to World History and Trivia; Added "Gold" to Financial Trivia.

11/08/07 - Added additional content to "Education Tidbits" on Education; Changed page design of Compositions #1, Compositions #2, Compositions #3, Compositions #4, Compositions #5, Compositions #6 & Compositions #7.

11/05/07 - Added "Edgar Allan Poe" to Profiles in Literature; Added additional content to American Inventors / Inventions; Added "Top Ten Halloween Things That Sound Dirty but Aren't " to Halloween; Added additional content to "Historical Tidbits" & changed page design of Native American History; Added "A Very Large Dinosaur" to Dinosaurs; Added "A Brief History of the Encyclopedia" to Education & to Literature; Changed page design of Henry David Thoreau.

10/28/07 - Added "The Telephone" to Historical Myths, Lies & Untruths; Added "Bizarre Life Forms" to Bizarre Stuff; Added "The First World Series, 1903" to A Brief History of Baseball; Added "Cold Sores", "Grease Stains on Clothes", "Mice & Rats" & "WD-40" to Helpful Tips.

10/16/07 - Added "Why Roosevelt Is On the Dime" to Financial Trivia & Presidential Trivia; Added Apple Cider Vinegar, Dandruff, Hair Conditioner & Roaches to Helpful Tips; Added additional content to American Inventors / Inventions.

10/06/07 - Added The United States Constitution to Site Navigation Bar; Added "Volleyball" to Sports; Added additional content to American Inventors / Inventions; Added "The Beginnings of HUAC" to Shameful History.

10/03/07 - Added additional content to American Inventors / Inventions; Added "The Federal Reserve System" to Government; Added "The Fourth Amendment" to American History Tidbits.

09/29/07 - Added Buddhism to Site Navigation Bar; Added "Candles", "Leather Furniture", "Peanut Butter", "Potatoes", "Washing Your Car" & "White Distilled Vinegar" to Helpful Tips; Added American Inventors page & linked to Inventors/Inventions; Linked The Murder of Emmett Till to Infamous Crimes & Shameful History.

09/22/07 - Added photograph to Contact the MitchMan; Added "The United States Constitution" to American History Tidbits; Added "Osama bin Laden's Islam" to Islam; Added "The World's First Great Novel" to Literature; Added "The World's Greatest Library" to Education & Literature; Added India, and content, & linked to World History and Trivia.

09/15/07 - Added "Labor vs. Management, 19th-Century Style" to Employment / Labor History; Added "Thomas Paine" to American History Tidbits; Added The Print Media & linked to The Media; Added "The Press", "History and the Praess", "A Free Press", "Cheap News" & "Keeping Sources Secret" to The Print Media; Added "Satchel Paige" & "Josh Gibson" to Baseball Profiles.

09/14/07 - Added "Alexander Graham Bell" to Inventors/Inventions; Added "Sophie Germain, Mathematician" to Historical Profiles; Added "Rhoda" to Television Trivia; Added "Albert Einstein" to Physics.

09/02/07 - Added Classic Americana & linked to Music; Added "Field of Dreams" content & added to "Baseball Trivia" in Baseball & to "Movie Tidbits" in Movie Trivia; Added "Some Myths of American History" to Historical Myths, Lies & Untruths; Added "Bizarre Town Names" & "Bizarre Newspaper Headlines" to Bizarre Stuff; Added "America's Almost National Anthem", "America the Beautiful" by Katharine Lee Bates, About "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" & "Battle Hymn of the Republic" by Julia Ward Howe to Classic Americana; Added "The U.S. Attorney General" to Government; Added "Top 5 Causes of the Great Depression" to American History Tidbits.

06/30/07 - Changed page design and added content to Religion; Added "The Federal Courts" to "The Judicial Branch", in Government; Added additional content to "Venus", on The Milky Way & to "Tidbits", in Financial Trivia; Added "GREECE" to "EUROPE", on Geography; Added additional content to "Pizza", in Food, Drink Trivia; Added additional content and changed page design to Humor & Hilarious Humor from Kids; Added additional content and changed page design to Politics; Added "Sea Lions" to Aquatic Life; Added additional content to The Academy Awards; Added additional content to "More Church Bulletin Bloopers" in Religious Humor; Changed page design to Interesting Links.

06/26/07 - Added "Life and Death of a Big Star" to Outer Space; Changed page design of Financial Trivia; Added content about "Cricket" to "Sports Pot Pourri" in Sports; Added additional content to Movie and Television Quotes; Added additional content & "Hooterville" to Television Trivia.

06/24/07 - Added Infamous Crimes page & included "The Black Dahlia" & "Lizzie Borden"; Added "The First Bicycle" to Inventors/Inventions; Added additional content to "Bizarre Crimes", "Bizarre Medical Notes" & "Other Bizarre Stuff" to Bizarre Stuff; Added "Rash from Wristwatch" to Helpful Tips; Added "Anne Bonny" to Bad Boys (& Girls), Brigands, Outlaws & Scamps & Pirates; Added additional content to "The Sun" & "Jupiter" in The Milky Way, to London, England, to "Pigeons" in Birds, & to "Piranha" in Aquatic Life; Changed page design of Bad Boys (& Girls), Brigands, Outlaws & Scamps, The Military & Pirates.

06/22/07 - Added "How to Get a Supreme Court Hearing" to The Supreme Court; Added "Committee Created to Write the Declaration of Independence" to The Declaration of Independence; Added "How Do Birds Learn" to Birds; Added additional content to "Bizarre 911 Calls", in Bizarre Stuff; Added "Baghdad" to Iraq.

06/20/07 - Added "Postage Stamps" to Inventors/Inventions; Added "God and Religion" to Religion; Added "John Bartlett, Collector of Quotations" to Quotations; Added additional content to "Baseball Trivia" in Baseball.

06/16/07 - Added additional content ( 'Civil War Carnage') to Civil War Tidbits; Added additional content to "Pizza" in Food, Drink Trivia; Added "Bizarre 911 Calls" to Bizarre Stuff; Added "EVERYTHING I KNOW I LEARNED IN CORPORATE AMERICA" to Humor on the Job; Added additional content to Food, Drink Trivia; Added Germany, Russia & Turkey & linked to World History and Trivia; Merged The Bush Gang II & The Bush Gang III into The Bush Gang.

06/10/07 - Added "The Last Man to Die for a Mistake, John Kerry's 1971 Address to Congress, Regarding Vietnam" to Vietnam & Favorite Speeches; Added additional content, Five U. S. Service Acadamies, to The Military; Added "Paris" to France; Added content regarding "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" to Ireland & Music.

06/08/09 - Added additional content to "Baseball Trivia", in Baseball; Added additional content to Plants, Salt, Salt & Pepper Shakers, Tomato Plants, Cleaning Microwave Ovens & Cleaning Drains, in Helpful Tips; Added additional content to Other Food Factoids, Pizza & Turkey, in Food, Drink Trivia; Added "Random Stuff About Sesame Street" to Television; Added "Random Stuff About Country Music" to Music; Added "Eleven Great Puns About the Law" to Law/Justice; Added additional content to Geography.

06/05/07 - Added "Cleopatra" to Ancient Egypt & Women In World History; Added additional content to "Whales", in Aquatic Life; Changed content of SPECIAL OCCASIONS page.

06/01/07 - Added Icons of Classical Music and linked to Music & Profiles In Music; Changed page design of Veteran's Day; Added "Herman Melville" & "John Milton/Paradise Lost" to Profiles in Literature; Added "How Tall Were Our Medieval Ancestors?" to Medieval History; Added additional content to "A Few Tidbits", Walt Disney Studios; Added "Bizarre Inventions" to Bizarre Stuff; Added additional content to "Baseball Trivia", Baseball.

05/30/07 - Added additional content to "The Constitution" in American History Tidbits; Added additional content to "Water" in The Weather; Added "Arlington National Cemetery" to Memorial Day.

05/24/07 - Added "Cooking Meat" to Helpful Tips; Added Television to Site Navigation Bar; Added content to Television; Added "Ohio" content to Geography.

05/18/07 - Added 2 images of "Laura" to Photo Gallery; Added "The Netherlands" to Geography; Added "The Birth of Jazz" to Music; Changed page design of SPECIAL OCCASIONS; Added additional content to "Bees" in Insects, Bugs, to "Movie Tidbits" in Movie Trivia, to "Sports Pot Pourri" in Sports and to "Educational Tidbits" in Education.

05/08/07 - Added "Top 5 Causes of the Civil War" to The Civil War; Added "The First Dot Com" to Computer Trivia, Inventors/Inventions & Technology; Added Contact the MitchMan to the Site Navigation Bar; Added "My Latest Girlfriend, Fannie MaeBob" to Hillbilly Family Album.

05/01/07 - Changed content of SPECIAL OCCASIONS page.

04/30/07 - Added "Classwarfare" to Ronald Reagan: A Different View; Added "Charles Dickens" & image of Jane Austen to Profiles in Literature; Added "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart" to Profiles In Music; Added Assisting The Global Economy to the Site Navigation bar, with "The World Bank", "The IMF (International Monetary Fund" & "The WTO (World Trade Organization) included on the page; Added "Robert Burns" to Profiles in Literature; Added "Noun vs. Verb" to Riddles, etc.; Added London, England, and linked to World History and Trivia.

04/25/07 - Added "What Is A Grandparent" to Hilarious Humor from Kids; Added "More Church Bulletin Bloopers" to Religious Humor; Added "Cakes" & additional content to "Coca Cola" to Helpful Tips; Added "Some Stuff Abut Oceans" to Geography; Added

04/21/07 - Added "The Plague of America" to Native American History; Added "Easy Steps to Gooder Grammar" to English Language Facts and Trivia; Added additional content to Pirates; Added "The Panic of 1873" to Employment / Labor History; Added "First Jigsaw Puzzles" to Inventors/Inventions; Added additional content to "Pot Pourri" in Literature; Added "Franklin Pierce" to Presidential Profiles; Added Brazil, Ecuador, & Somalia & linked to World History and Trivia; Added "FEET" to The Human Body; Added "Plato" to Ancient Greece.

04/18/07 - Added The Vatican & linked to Religion & World History and Trivia; Added "Jackie Robinson" to Baseball Profiles & Profiles In Courage; Added "German Chocolate Cake" & "Oreo Cookies" to Food, Drink Trivia.

04/15/07 - Added "Johann Gutenberg, The Man Behind All Your Books" to Profiles in Literature & Inventors/Inventions; Added "Al Qaeda" & "The Original Assassins" to Bad Boys (& Girls), Brigands, Outlaws & Scamps; Added "Building A Cabinet" to U. S. Presidents; Added "Guantanamo" to Cuba; Added additional content to "Miscellaneous Tidbits" in More Movie Trivia; Changed page design & added "Definitions", & content, to Education; Added Humor in the Media & included "Actual Newspaper Headlines".

04/12/07 - Added additional content to "Sports Pot Pourri" in Sports; Added The Supreme Court, and content, to Site Navigation Bar; Changed page design of Women In American History & Technology.

04/08/07 - Added "Presidential Power", "Congress by the Numbers", "Starting the Supreme Court" & "Executive Privilege", changed page design and altered content to Government; Added Riddles to Site Navigation Bar, and included "The Missing Dollar", "Psychopath Test" and "Mathematically Inclined"; Added "Cows' Milk for Cats" & "Toxic Grapes/Raisins for Dogs & Cats" to Helpful Tips; Added additional content to Pirates and to SPECIAL OCCASIONS.

03/31/07 - Changed content of SPECIAL OCCASIONS; Added Bizarre Stuff to Site Navigation Bar; Added "Bizarre Celebrity Firings", "Bizarre Crimes", "Bizarre Deaths", "Bizarre URLs" & "Other Bizarre Stuff" to Bizarre Stuff; Added Coca Cola, Facials, Gum In Your Hair, Scuffed Shoes & Tanning to Helpful Tips; Changed page design & added "Laughter, the Best Medicine" (www.lotsofjokes.com) to Interesting Links.

03/26/07 - Added Cuba & linked to World History and Trivia; Added "Cuba Before Castro" & "Fidel Castro" to Cuba; Added "Funny Excerpts From Student Essays" to Humor in Education; Added "Some Elton John Tidbits" to Profiles In Music; Added "The Indian Wars and the Emergence of the United States as a World Power" & "Indian Wars & the Vietnam Experience" to Native American History;
Changed page design & added "The Plague of America" to Shameful Episodes in Native American History; Added "The 1943 Detroit Race Riots" to Shameful History.

03/23/07 - Added "Jane Austen" to Profiles in Literature; Added "More Movie History" to The Birth of the Movies; Added Julius Caesar & linked to Ancient Rome; Added "Ulysses S. Grant" "Robert E. Lee", "Words From the Confederacy", "Reconstruction in the South" & "Remembering Reconstruction" to Civil War Tidbits; Added "Civil War Timeline" to The Civil War; Added additional content to Hockey.

03/19/07 - Added "Historical Myth: The 300 Who Held Thermopylae" to Ancient Greece, Historical Myths, Lies & Untruths & Ancient History; Changed page design of Ancient History; Changed page design & added "Map of the Known World of the 5th Century" to Medieval History.

03/10/07 - Added Historical Myths, Lies & Untruths to Site Navigation Bar; Added "Debunking Modern Myths About the Middle Ages" to Medieval History; Added 'Henry Wadsworh Longfellow' to Profiles in Literature; Added "Betsy Ross and the First American Flag", "Looking at Civil War Black History Myths" an "8 Myths About Ancient History" to Historical Myths, Lies & Untruths; Added "A Psalm of Life" to Favorite Poems, Pg. 1.

03/04/07 - Added "Desegration During WWII" to The Military; Changed content of SPECIAL OCCASIONS page; Changed page design of The Academy Awards.

03/01/07 - Added "Movies" to the Site Navigation Bar & renamed page The Birth of the Movies, adding "How 'Motion Pictures' Came to Be", "A Brief History of the Movies" & "The Birth of Cinema".

02/24/07 - Added additional content to "Elephants" in Mammals; Added 3 Historic Love Affairs & linked to Relationships & World History and Trivia; Added "Chief Joseph" & "Pontiac" to Native American Profiles; Added "CLEANING COPPER AND BRASS" & "TOMATO PLANTS" to Helpful Tips; Added "The Klan in Washington" to Shameful History.

02/21/07 - Added "So Who Was Pocahontas" to Native American Profiles; Added "CLEANING COPPER BOTTOMS OF POTS & PANS", "RUST", "CRAYON MARKS" & "SCRATCHES ON LIGHT COLORED WOOD" to Helpful Tips; Added "Mary Katherine Goddard" to The Media & Women In American History; Added "Chinese on the Western Frontier" to The Old West: History and Trivia.

02/17/07 - Added additional content to The Vikings - A Brief Overview; Changed page design & added "Defining the Middle Ages" & "Medieval Christmas Traditions" to Medieval History; Added "Medieval Christmas Traditions" to Christmas; Added "Toni Morrison" to Profiles in Literature; Changed page design of Paul Robeson.

02/13/07 - Added "The Wizard of Oz Tidbits" and additional content to More Movie Trivia; Added additional content to Television Trivia; Added additional content to "Babies", in The Human Body; Added Profiles in Literature & included "Stephen Crane", "Stephen King" & "Voltaire".

02/09/07 - Added additional content to "Superbowl Tidbits" to Football; added "Ice Cream" to Food, Drink Trivia; added "Roman Super Sport - Gladiators" & "Chariot Racing - The Greatest (Roman) Show on Earth" to Ancient Rome; Added "Budget Battles" to Government.

02/04/07 - Added "The Day the Music Died" & additional content to "Music Tidbits", in Music; Added The Vikings - A Brief Overview & linked to World History and Trivia; Added additional content to "Beatles' Tidbits", in The Beatles; Added "Power to Make War" to Government.

01/30/07 - Added additional content to "Movie Tidbits" on Movie Trivia; Added additional content to Bushisms - Profound Quotes From George W. Bush; Added additional content and changed page design of Daylight Saving Time; Added France & content, including "Who Killed Napoleon", "Napoleon Bonaparte Trivia", "The French Re-Re-Re-Re-Republic" & "The Separation of Chuch and France".

01/22/07 - Added Bushisms - Profound Quotes From George W. Bush to site Navigation Bar; Added additional content to "The U.S. Constitution", American History Tidbits; to Mitch's Favorite Quotes, to Television Trivia, to Profound Quotations, & to "The Brain", on The Human Body; Added Barrack Obama, Sojourner Truth & Chief Joseph to Favorite Speeches; Added "Presidential Succession" & "Eligibility for Congress" to Government.

01/16/07 - Added additional content, "Henry Starr", to Old West Historical Ttrivia, The Old West: History and Trivia; Added "The Myth of Spitting" to Vietnam & to Military II; Added "The Mexican Revolution" to Mexico; Added content & changed page design of Geography.

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