No, not R2 as in R2D2 that everyone remembers from the original Star Wars movie. Today is about R2 in the world of Studebakers, which stands for a rip-snorting series of V8 engines that the company put into its cars in the last year or so of full operations in South Bend, Indiana. I will…| J. P.'s Blog
It may be a multi-award winning, top notch piece of pricey rolling art, but this 1963 Corvette restomod is begging to be driven.| CorvetteForum
It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn’t know what I was doing in New York. I’m stupid about executions. The idea of being electrocuted m…| This Reading Life
We are now on the downhill slope of this A to Z photo challenge, in which I peruse my car photos for models representing each letter of the alphabet. And, after last week’s Marmon Sixteen, today’s car is another way to go downhill. However, If you are too young to have ever seen a Marmon … … Continue reading →| J. P.'s Blog
The US Congress imposed immigration quotas in 1924, ending the Ellis Island era of immigration. With no more newcomers, Orthodoxy in America began to assimilate more rapidly into American society, as the children and grandchildren of the original immigrants came to see themselves as Americans, even if they held onto their cultural inheritances (which, in […]| Orthodox History
Today, August 28, 2024 is the 61st anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s “I Have a Dream” speech that he delivered before 250,000 people in Washington, D.C.| Mshale
Learn about the historic day the WWF (now WWE) was born and broke away from the NWA, creating its own world title.| Pro Wrestling Stories