Tickled Ticker Symbols
Back in the days of stock ticker machines, standardized company abbreviations or ticker symbols reduced the costs of quotations ticked across telegraph lines. Although ticker tape was an early...
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Hallowed Grounds: Fenway & Wrigley
During the first half of the twentieth century, Americans could count on death, taxes and the same sixteen teams in Major League Baseball. All sixteen teams huddled in the northeast quadrant of the...
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They murdered the jockey within 48 hours. It took two weeks before a hiker found the trainer downstream from a hunting cabin in Idaho with two bullets in the back of the head. Golden Gate Fields...
View ArticleGimme Shelter
Here we were, on the brink of nuclear destruction, and my parents couldn’t grasp the necessity of a fallout shelter. We were a typical 1950s middle class family. Dad brought home the bacon and Mother...
View ArticleReducing Our Cancer Risk
What is the greatest risk factor for getting cancer? Tobacco? Environmental pollution? Try age. The longer we live, the more likely our chances that we’ll contract some form of cancer. Since all of us...
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