AT LAST!
Pigs can fly, hell is frozen, the slipper finally fits,
and Impossible Dreams really can come true.
The Red Sox have won the World Series 
Aces Pedro Martinez and Curt Schilling, whose pitching prowess helped win the Series, hugged after the Sox swept the Cards. (Globe Staff / Barry Chin) 
Joe Louis - 1918-1941  The Fight, companion to a PBS film that premieres October 18, looks at the 1938 fight between American Joe Louis and German Max Schmeling in the context of African-American history and the coming war with Germany. 70,000 fans crammed into Yankee Stadium, and millions turned on their radios to witness, on the eve of World War II, what has been called "the most important sporting event in history." Listen to the broadcast of this fight and their earlier bout in 1936. (National Endowment for the Humanities) Interesting fact from today's resource: On Kristallnacht, Schmeling took an enormous risk and hid the two teenage sons of a Jewish friend in his Berlin hotel room. When the opportunity presented itself, Schmeling smuggled the two boys out of the country. Characteristically, the modest Schmeling made no mention of this episode in his own autobiography. Read more about Max Schmeling. October 12, 2004
More about magnets than you could possibly want to know.
I could tell you what this is, but you might as well just click here
October 07, 2004
Bookman balks at 'Bootylicious'
James J. Kilpatrick is disturbed "A new definition of the word `bootylicious' has just been added to the Oxford English Dictionary Online." esp. of a woman, often with reference to the buttocks; sexually attractive, sexy; shapely.
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