A VALENTINE HEART (VEINS AND ARTERIES INCLUDED) CHOCOLATE HEARTS, RED ROSES AND TEDDY BEAR EXTRA At the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago visitors could walk through a giant replica of the human heart to watch its principal parts work as they do in one’s own body and actually...
On this date in 1885 the soft drink Dr Pepper made its first appearance at a drug store in Waco, Texas. The drink is not a real doctor, therefore the period is silent, or more like invisible to the seeing eye. Today a museum in Waco pretends to celebrate this...
Although I have not written a post about the International Banana Museum in California (and no, it’s not just a lonely banana sitting in a chair), in the early days of this blog I wrote about the Banana Museum in Washington State. Yes, people there are at least TWO banana...
In its two-and-a-half year existence, this blog has covered a random teapot museum in Tennessee, a tea museum no longer with us and even a Hitler teapot…so one more tea related thing can’t hurt. Everybody loves a cuppa. Open since last summer, J’s Tea-rific Teapot Museum in teeny tiny Elloree,...
The Murals of Saint Petersburg, Russia: “Scarlet Sails” named after the novel written by Alexander Grin A tribute to “Soviet Heroes” People playing football in front of “City” “The 200th Anniversary of the Russian Army Victory Over Napoleon” A kid walks by the “Suitcase” apartment block The “Books” building
Even though the internet has slowly tied its noose around our collective necks, it is important to learn about the history of this soul-crushing global system invented by Al Gore. If you care to brush up on topics like the first piece of spam ever sent, that gifs haven’t changed...
Today I learned there is a small kingdom called Boomeria outside of Santa Cruz, California. Yes, you read that last sentence correctly. The King, also known as Mr. Preston Boomer, has been teaching physics and chemistry at San Lorenzo Valley High School for over fifty years when he’s not busy...
Every year the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago has a Day of the Dead exhibit. The only Latino museum accredited by the American Association of Museums, it has the country’s largest Mexican art collection. So it’s fitting the museum also has one of the biggest displays of Día...
Whether or not you believe in climate change, you have to admit the current weather conditions are a bit screwy. Or more like unpredictable and extreme. On Christmas Day it was sunny and relatively warm, meaning I did not have to wear a real winter coat. Did I mention I...
If you recall, I once told you about the Comic Strip Center in Brussels, Belgium. Well, Belgians really, really, really like comics…so much that they even have a comic strip walk that starts at the De Brouckere metro station and ends at the Comic Café on the Grand Sablon. Along...
