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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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