https://timpanogos.blog Striving for accuracy in history, economics, geography, education, politics and a little science Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:23:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ https://timpanogos.blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/cropped-millardfillmore1857-healy-head-detail.png?w=32 https://timpanogos.blog 32 32 290772 https://timpanogos.blog/2026/04/14/april-is-the-month-to-fly-your-flags-in-2026/ https://timpanogos.blog/2026/04/14/april-is-the-month-to-fly-your-flags-in-2026/#comments Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:23:40 +0000 http://timpanogos.blog/?p=40915 https://timpanogos.blog/2026/04/14/april-is-the-month-to-fly-your-flags-in-2026/feed/ 1 40915 thats-me-ted-landsmark-009 edarrell Caption from The Guardian: Ted Landsmark (centre): ‘I had a sense that something really significant had happened.’ Boston, April 5, 1976. Photograph: stanleyformanphotos.com https://timpanogos.blog/2026/04/13/1935-polio-scare-shut-down-national-scout-jamboree/ https://timpanogos.blog/2026/04/13/1935-polio-scare-shut-down-national-scout-jamboree/#respond Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:48:52 +0000 http://timpanogos.blog/?p=40893 https://timpanogos.blog/2026/04/13/1935-polio-scare-shut-down-national-scout-jamboree/feed/ 0 40893 Scout Jamboree 1935, aerial shot, Goodyear Airship Enterprise edarrell https://timpanogos.blog/2026/02/23/rise-again-again-stan-rogerss-mary-ellen-carter/ https://timpanogos.blog/2026/02/23/rise-again-again-stan-rogerss-mary-ellen-carter/#respond Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:13:40 +0000 http://timpanogos.blog/?p=40861 https://timpanogos.blog/2026/02/23/rise-again-again-stan-rogerss-mary-ellen-carter/feed/ 0 40861 stan-rogers-stamp-2 edarrell https://timpanogos.blog/2026/01/01/flying-u-s-flags-in-january-2026/ https://timpanogos.blog/2026/01/01/flying-u-s-flags-in-january-2026/#comments Thu, 01 Jan 2026 20:02:08 +0000 http://timpanogos.blog/?p=40835 https://timpanogos.blog/2026/01/01/flying-u-s-flags-in-january-2026/feed/ 2 40835 American flag, NBA game edarrell Flag House in 1936, 844 East Pratt & Albemarle Streets (Baltimore, Independent City, Maryland) (cropped). Image courtesy of the federal HABS—Historic American Buildings Survey of Maryland. This is an encore post. https://timpanogos.blog/2026/01/01/happy-new-year-first-flag-flying-date-of-2026/ https://timpanogos.blog/2026/01/01/happy-new-year-first-flag-flying-date-of-2026/#respond Thu, 01 Jan 2026 19:57:32 +0000 http://timpanogos.blog/?p=40833 https://timpanogos.blog/2026/01/01/happy-new-year-first-flag-flying-date-of-2026/feed/ 0 40833 US flag, from Air Force Tumblr edarrell https://timpanogos.blog/2025/12/30/we-need-to-celebrate-hubble-day-better-december-30-2025-anniversary-of-the-day-we-learned-its-a-big-universe/ https://timpanogos.blog/2025/12/30/we-need-to-celebrate-hubble-day-better-december-30-2025-anniversary-of-the-day-we-learned-its-a-big-universe/#comments Tue, 30 Dec 2025 09:28:47 +0000 http://timpanogos.blog/?p=40822 https://timpanogos.blog/2025/12/30/we-need-to-celebrate-hubble-day-better-december-30-2025-anniversary-of-the-day-we-learned-its-a-big-universe/feed/ 2 40822 b2hubb011422 edarrell Images from the Hubble Telescope Edwin Hubble Hubble Space Telescope - NASA image Andromeda as we can see it today. Wikimedia image: The Andromeda Galaxy is a spiral galaxy approximately 2.5 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda. The image also shows Messier Objects 32 and 110, as well as NGC 206 (a bright star cloud in the Andromeda Galaxy) and the star Nu Andromedae. This image was taken using a hydrogen-alpha filter. This is an encore post. https://timpanogos.blog/2025/12/20/typewriters-of-the-rich-and-famous-john-lennon-on-an-anonymous-scm/ https://timpanogos.blog/2025/12/20/typewriters-of-the-rich-and-famous-john-lennon-on-an-anonymous-scm/#respond Sat, 20 Dec 2025 06:18:23 +0000 http://timpanogos.blog/?p=40805 https://timpanogos.blog/2025/12/20/typewriters-of-the-rich-and-famous-john-lennon-on-an-anonymous-scm/feed/ 0 40805 John Lennon on SCM typewriter edarrell https://timpanogos.blog/2025/12/19/rare-new-and-alternative-christmas-songs-2025-joni-mitchells-river/ https://timpanogos.blog/2025/12/19/rare-new-and-alternative-christmas-songs-2025-joni-mitchells-river/#respond Fri, 19 Dec 2025 09:03:39 +0000 http://timpanogos.blog/?p=40800 https://timpanogos.blog/2025/12/19/rare-new-and-alternative-christmas-songs-2025-joni-mitchells-river/feed/ 0 40800 Joni Mitchell skating, by Joel Bernstein edarrell Joni Mitchell skating on a river, photo by Joel Bernstein This is an encore post. https://timpanogos.blog/2025/12/19/we-have-questions-in-2025-who-invented-santa-claus-who-really-wrote-the-night-before-christmas/ https://timpanogos.blog/2025/12/19/we-have-questions-in-2025-who-invented-santa-claus-who-really-wrote-the-night-before-christmas/#respond Fri, 19 Dec 2025 06:17:25 +0000 http://timpanogos.blog/?p=40798 https://timpanogos.blog/2025/12/19/we-have-questions-in-2025-who-invented-santa-claus-who-really-wrote-the-night-before-christmas/feed/ 0 40798 merry_old_santa_claus_by_thomas_nast edarrell Thomas Nast for Harper's Weekly, January 3, 1863 - "Santa Claus in Camp" Thomas Nast’s full realization of Santa Claus, “Merry Old Santa Claus,” January 1, 1881. Harper’s Weekly, from the Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum, via Bill Cassellman's site 1936 Coca-Cola Santa cardboard store display 1942 original oil painting - 'They Remembered Me' https://timpanogos.blog/2025/12/15/far-away-places-calling-us-raul-malo-with-tommy-emmanuel/ https://timpanogos.blog/2025/12/15/far-away-places-calling-us-raul-malo-with-tommy-emmanuel/#respond Mon, 15 Dec 2025 21:04:43 +0000 http://timpanogos.blog/?p=40786 https://timpanogos.blog/2025/12/15/far-away-places-calling-us-raul-malo-with-tommy-emmanuel/feed/ 0 40786 Raul Malo Screenshot 2025-12-15 150027 edarrell