Agent Orange’s Long Legacy: Its Now Affecting Vets’ Grandchildren

May 31, 2018 George Winston Beginning in 1962 and continuing until 1971, the United States military, with the approval of President John F. Kennedy, sprayed over twenty million gallons of herbicide over more than four and a half million acres in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia in order to defoliate the jungle and reduce the areas available … Read more

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San Colombano hermitage: Carved into a cliff in northern Italy, it is named after a saint who killed a dragon

The Vintage News Mar 30, 2018 Martin Chalakoski Deep in the Leno Valley of Trento Province in the far north of Italy, next to lake Lago di San Colombano, solitude is taken to a whole other level and isolation literally to new heights. While it is somewhat expected for a hermitage to be hard to reach, San … Read more

Until 1972, women were prohibited from running the Boston Marathon and the first female to complete race had to hide in the bushes before starting

The Vintage News Dec 3, 2017 E.L. Hamilton Photo:dee & tula monstah CC By 2.0 It is hard to believe today, when more women run than men. But until 1972, women were prohibited to run the Boston Marathon—the oldest and most prestigious marathon (26.2 miles) in the United States. In 1967, Kathrine Switzer managed to get … Read more

In 1864, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Yosemite Land Grant, which changed the American landscape forever

The Vintage News May 7, 2018 E.L. Hamilton In 1864, as the Civil War raged across the divided states, President Abraham Lincoln took time away from military matters long enough to sign a two-paragraph bill that would change the course of American landscape forever. The Yosemite Land Grant was the first ever to set aside land … Read more

North of Munich, the oldest continuously operated brewery, founded by monks, is nearing its 1,000th birthday

The Vintage News Apr 19, 2018 E.L. Hamilton If you want to talk the history of beer over a pint, what better place than the world’s oldest continuously operating brewery? Forty miles due north of Munich, braumeisters at the Weihenstephan Abbey have been boiling hops for nearly 1,000 years. And the seeds of beer history were planted even … Read more

Half blind Bob Bell, who faked his vision test to get into the Marines, later became TV’s best loved Bozo the Clown

Mar 29, 2018 E.L. Hamilton The Vintage News Bozo the Clown. Photo: Getty Images The partially blind man who became the most popular Bozo the Clown of all bluffed his way into the Marines during WWII. How? He passed the vision test by memorizing eye charts. Bob Bell wasn’t the only red-haired, red-nosed, floppy-shoed Bozo. But … Read more

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