This is a series of posts that will talk about my favorite original Christmas songs. See if you agree with any of these!
In part one I chose “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”, “Winter Wonderland”, “The Christmas Song”, “Jingle Bell Rock”, A Holly Jolly Christmas”, and “Frosty the Snowman”. I’ll choose 6 more here.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) confirmed that a Cessna 550 aircraft, registered to GB Aviation Leasing LLC and owned by former NASCAR driver Greg Biffle, crashed at Statesville Regional Airport on Thursday, December 18, 2025.
Gregory Jack Biffle was born on December 23, 1969, in Vancouver, Washington, and grew up in Camas, where his fascination with racing and automobiles began at an early age. Surrounded by the culture of local short-track racing and gaining hands-on mechanical experience,
Turning an architectural mishap into one of the most recognizable structures in the world
The Leaning Tower of Pisa owes its famous tilt to a combination of medieval ambition, unstable soil, and centuries of engineering intervention that ultimately saved rather than straightened it, turning an architectural mishap into one of the most recognizable structures in the world. Construction began in the summer of 1173 during a period of prosperity for the Maritime Republic of Pisa, when the city sought to display its wealth and piety through a monumental
Caravaggio chose to place Medusa’s severed head upon a convex ceremonial shield.
Caravaggio’s Medusa on a Shield stands as one of the most arresting images of the late sixteenth century, a work that marries myth, virtuoso technique, courtly spectacle, and the artist’s distinctive psychological intensity. Commissioned around 1597–1598 by Cardinal Francesco Maria del Monte as a diplomatic gift for
Macy’s was searching for a way to transform its holiday parade from a procession of live zoo animals into a modern spectacle.
The history of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade balloons begins in the 1920s, when Macy’s was searching for a way to transform its holiday parade from a procession of live zoo animals into a modern spectacle that could be seen from blocks away.
Rob and Michele Singer Reiner were found dead Sunday afternoon at their home in Los Angeles, and investigators believe they suffered stab wounds, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press.
Robert Norman Reiner was born on March 6, 1947, in New York City into a family steeped in show business; his father was the legendary comedian and writer Carl Reiner, and his mother, Estelle Reiner, was an actress and singer. Growing up in a creative household, he developed a passion for performance and storytelling at an early age, ultimately attending the
A creature born in the lumber camps of Wisconsin during the late nineteenth century.
The hodag occupies one of the more colorful corners of North American folklore, a creature born in the lumber camps of Wisconsin during the late nineteenth century and nurtured by an atmosphere of tall tales, rough humor, and the need for stories that could ease the strain of hard physical labor.
She has built a distinctive career at the intersection of contortion, hand balancing, and archery.
Brittany Walsh, who performs under the stage name AcroBritt, has built a distinctive career at the intersection of contortion, hand balancing, and archery, creating a single signature stunt that has become her calling card: shooting a compound-bow arrow using only her feet while in an inverted contortion handstand. Her path to that unusual specialty began in childhood with competitive gymnastics and broadened into circus arts after 2005, when she immersed herself in training and ensemble work that would carry her onto international stages.
These are songs that contain “Jesus” in their lyrics.
“Tower of Babel,” written by Elton John with lyrics by Bernie Taupin, appears on the 1975 autobiographical album Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy, where it serves as one of the darkest and most biting commentaries on the duo’s early struggles in the London music scene. The song paints a stark portrait of a world filled with
Find out how passkeys can finally replace passwords for consumer logins while offering an improved user experience and much better security.
Passkeys represent a quiet but profound change in how people prove who they are online, replacing the familiar but fragile world of passwords with something far more resistant to theft, guessing, reuse, and phishing. At their core, passkeys rely on public-key cryptography, a mathematical system that creates a pair of keys that belong together but cannot reveal each other.
