Category: 2015

1.15.16 The Name Game II

January 15, 2016 Mike Keeler
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The holidays are over, and we enter the dreadful season we call, THE POLITICAL PRIMARIES. And so, potential voters, once again it’s time to play, “What’s In a Name?” BERNARD SANDERS: The name BERNARD is of Germanic origin, “Bern-Hard,” meaning strong and hardy as a bear. SANDERS is a simplification…
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12.24.15 Dunder and Blixem

December 24, 2015 Mike Keeler
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Twas the night before Christmas. And you might have been wondering about “Donner.” After all, the other reindeer names make sense. Dasher dashes, Dancer dances, Prancer prances. Cupid and Vixen probably hang out together. Comet is clearly the fastest one. And Blitzen is the German one that sparkles like lightning.…
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12.18.14 Chests & Nuts

December 18, 2015 Mike Keeler
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Global warming! Immigrant terror! The War on CHRISTMAS! …may all be alleviated though selective breeding. When Europeans arrived in the New World, one of the most valuable things they found was the unfathomably large and widespread forests of mature hardwood trees. The forests back in Europe had been heavily harvested…
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10.30.15 The Jack Facts

October 30, 2015 Mike Keeler
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Who’s Jack? And what’s up with the lantern? There’s a lot of ancient tradition involving scary lights at harvest time. Pre-Christian Europeans celebrated Samhaim, the autumn festival of the Dead, with bonfires and torches and other late-night illuminations. Samhaim was later displaced by All Saint’s Day, but the fascination with…
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10.16.15 Promising Packaging

October 16, 2015 Mike Keeler
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You don’t often equate scientific advancement with the swilling of a few beers… But consider Carlsberg Brewing Company. It was established in Copenhagen in 1847 by J.C. Jacobsen, a wealthy philanthropist, who named the company and its flagship brew after his son Carl. From the beginning, the company has been…
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