Some links to items related to this week’s questions. The Awl: Crafty lawyers pretend they thought Taco Bell actually served meat Puppy Bowl VII reveals this year’s lineup. The very first Razzie Winner for Worst Picture, Can’t Stop The Music, in all the detail you need. Now go Netflix that bad boy. Apparently, Lincoln has [...]

A Diet of Worms may sound appealing to all but the most squeamish and gastronomically unadventurous among us, but the that happened on this day in 1521 had nothing to do with competitive eating-style hijinks or Fear Factor auditions. Martin Luther had nailed his famous 95-point indictment of the Catholic Church to the wall of [...]

Okay. The plan is to get to posting these on the day they’re supposed to be posted by a week tomorrow. I may be a flake, but I’m trying. So. On this day in 1643, Abel Tasman first reached Tonga, his last new land before heading home for the last time. He’d already found a [...]

January 20. It’s Inauguration Day in years where there’s a need for someone (like, say, a new President of the United States) to be inaugurated. It’s been that way since 1937, when the Twentieth Amendment moved it up from March 4th. Since the elections were traditionally held in the first week of November, four-plus months [...]

While for the most part it’s easy to come up with ten decent questions every Wednesday for the On This Day In History round[1] and still have lots of extra pieces left over, certainly enough for a decent blog post, there are still days where shit gets a little real. Things happen, the phone’s ringing, [...]

On this day in 1778, James Cook‘s crew became the first Europeans to reach what he called the Sandwich Islands, a land of topless dancers, laid back music, bounteous food and no enemies on any border. Even more amazing than Captain Cook going to the other side of the Earth and finding Hawaii (still clean [...]