Good Morning! Today is a very chilly Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026. Today is “National Visit Your Local Quilt Shop Day.” I’d wait for the weather to settle down, myself, but it occurs to me that a quilt would be kinda handy. A sub-zero day here in western New York.
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1908 Lieutenant General Robert Baden-Powell publishes “Scouting for Boys” as a manual for self-instruction in outdoor skills and self-improvement. The book becomes the inspiration for the Scout Movement.
1916 The Military Service Bill, calling for conscription of men for war services, passes in the British House of Commons.
1922 Christian Kent Nelson of Iowa patents the eskimo pie (no, he was not an Eskimo).
1958 After warming to 100,000,000 degrees, two light atoms are bashed together to
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