The largest urban bat colony in the World. More than a million Mexican free-tailed bats roost beneath the Ann W. Richards Congress Avenue Bridge.
Austin, Texas is home to one of the largest urban bat colonies in the world, a spectacle that has become as iconic to the city’s character as live music or barbecue. Each year from spring through early autumn, more than a million Mexican free-tailed bats roost beneath
A balance between a tool of last resort and a visible symbol of civic authority.
The billy club is one of the oldest and most recognizable tools of law enforcement, a short, stout baton designed to provide police and security officers with a means of defense, control, and symbolic authority. The term “billy” seems to have arisen from mid-nineteenth century American slang,
Some great musicians and a wonderful film star have passed.
These artists were the bassist for the Moody Blues; acted in The Godfather series of movies, Play It Again Sam, Reds, and many more; was the bassist for the Yardbirds and Box of Frogs; and was in Buddy Holly’s band the Crickets, and wrote the theme song for the Mary Tyler Moore Show.
This is a series of posts that will talk about my favorite songs with a number. See if you agree with any of these!
“One” is a song written by Harry Nilsson that first appeared on his 1968 album Aerial Ballet, and although Nilsson’s own version did not chart, it became widely known when Three Dog Night released their cover in 1969, taking it to No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 and helping establish the group’s career.
One of Coca-Cola’s most unusual experiments in branding.
OK Soda was created in 1993 as one of Coca-Cola’s most unusual experiments in branding, designed to capture the attention of a demographic that was proving resistant to traditional advertising messages. Marketed toward Generation X, the soda was not sold on the promise of superior flavor or aspirational lifestyle but instead on irony, detachment, and self-awareness.
Create a fleet of underwater aircraft carriers—submarines large enough to travel thousands of miles undetected and capable of launching bombers
The Sensuikan I-400-class submarine was among the most remarkable and ambitious naval projects undertaken by Japan during the Second World War, conceived at a time when Japanese strategists sought ways to strike at distant Allied targets with an element of surprise. The idea originated in 1942 after the attack on Pearl Harbor and the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo, when the Imperial Japanese Navy recognized the vulnerability of fixed bases and the need to project air power across the Pacific.
This is a series of posts that will talk about my favorite songs with screams. See if you agree with any of these!
“Child in Time” is a monumental song by Deep Purple, written by all five members of the Mark II lineup—Ian Gillan, Ritchie Blackmore, Roger Glover, Jon Lord, and Ian Paice—and first released on the 1970 album Deep Purple in Rock; inspired in part by “Bombay Calling” by It’s a Beautiful Day, the band transformed it into a 10-minute anti-war epic that showcases
They derive their name from the distinctive papery nests they construct by chewing plant fibers mixed with saliva.
Paper wasps are a diverse group of social wasps belonging primarily to the genus Polistes, though the term also encompasses several related genera within the subfamily Polistinae. Found worldwide in both temperate and tropical regions, they derive their name from the distinctive papery nests they construct by chewing plant fibers mixed with saliva to form a malleable pulp.
These are songs that contain “radio” in their lyrics.
“Mexican Radio” is a 1982 song by Wall of Voodoo from their second album Call of the West, released as a single in 1983. It was written by Stan Ridgway (lyrics) and Marc Moreland (music). The song was inspired by the band members’ drives to rehearsal in Los Angeles, during which they’d tune into powerful Mexican “border blaster”
Fresh pan-Asian cuisine featuring tastes of Korea, China, Japan, Vietnam, and Thailand at this popular noodle house.
Noodle in Decatur, Georgia, has become one of the city’s long-standing downtown fixtures, located at 205 East Ponce de Leon Avenue, Decatur, GA 30030, with the phone number (404) 378-8622. The restaurant was founded about twenty years ago by siblings Lili, Lina, and Lenny Shou, who established it as a neighborhood spot serving pan-Asian dishes.
