There are dates that look ordinary until you lean in and catch the hum beneath the ink. August 28 is one of those dates. On one August 28, in 1830, a tea-kettle of a locomotive nicknamed Tom Thumb lined up beside a horse on a short run of track outside Baltimore and lost a race …
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In Honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day
In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day I took the opportunity to go over to the Martin Luther King Jr. Monument. Upon arriving my initial thoughts was that the status is white and there is a couple mountains on both sides that are white with a piece missing where I first walked through to …