Sports Illustrated is an American sports magazine. First published in August 1954, it has over 3 million subscribers and is read by 23 million people each week, including over 18 million men. It was the first magazine with circulation over one million to win the National Magazine Award for General ExcellenceContinue Reading
Florence Nightingale (12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) was an English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing. Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War, in which she organised care for wounded soldiers. She gave nursing aContinue Reading
Marie Skłodowska Curie (born Maria Salomea Skłodowska; 7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934) was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and only woman to win twice, and the onlyContinue Reading
George Washington (February 22, 1732[ – December 14, 1799) was an American political leader, military general, statesman, and Founding Father, who also served as the first president of the United States (1789–1797). Washington commanded Patriot forces in the new nation’s vital American Revolutionary War, and led them to an alliedContinue Reading
LOEB “LEVI” STRAUSS contains… BLUE OVERALL RIVETS ARE BEST TO RESIST TEARS In the 1800s, Jacob Davis, a tailor from Nevada, regularly purchased bolts of denim fabric from Levi Strauss & Company’s wholesale house. After one of Davis’ customers kept purchasing extra cloth to reinforce torn pants, he had anContinue Reading
Colin Rand Kaepernick (born November 3, 1987) is an American activist and former American football quarterback in the National Football League (NFL). He last played for the San Francisco 49ers in 2016. The letters in a name or phrase can form many other words. Several descriptive lexagrams can be madeContinue Reading
The other day I was talking with a friend who abhors good puns – thankfully he is loaded with bad ones. He said that he was playing with words in the shower…. well, not showering with words but contemplating about – no, come to think on it, he said heContinue Reading
I was looking through some old notebooks that got unearthed during Spring Cleaning and happened upon a lexigram sketch I’d done about ten years ago. Back then, we were playing with the phrase DREAMLAND/AREA FIFTY-ONE at a Lexagram Party. This term, of course, refers to the mecca of alien conspiracy truth-seekers,Continue Reading
A soulmate is a person with whom one has a feeling of deep or natural affinity. This may involve similarity, love, romance, platonic relationships, comfort, intimacy, sexuality, sexual activity, spirituality, compatibility and trust. Hidden within the word Soulmates are words which form a series of descriptive phrases. These are simpleContinue Reading
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (born October 26, 1947) is an American politician, diplomat, and lawyer. She served as the 67th United States Secretary of State. A former U.S. Senator from New York from 2001 to 2009, before that she was the First Lady of the United States. In the 2016Continue Reading