Mike Pinder pass away on April 24th. He was a founding member and the original keyboard player of the rock group the Moody Blues. My favorite Moody Blues song has always been Melancholy Man, a song written by Pinder that was first released on their 1970 album A Question of Balance. At the end of August […]
An interesting tidbit about the city of Detroit, MI is that there is a huge salt mine underneath the city. The mine is located 1,200 feet beneath Detroit’s surface, spreading out more than 1,500 acres, and has over 100 miles of underground roads. The existence of rock salt in the Detroit area was discovered in […]
Cichlids are a variety of tropical fish. This family is large, diverse, and widely dispersed, making it one of the largest vertebrate families. Many cichlids, particularly tilapia, are important food fishes, while others, such as the Cichla species, are valued game fish. The family also includes many popular freshwater aquarium fish. One of the world’s smallest cichlid is the […]
Do you ever wonder why no one smiled in old photographs? There are several reasons why people looked unhappy and weren’t thrilled to have their picture taken. In photography’s earliest days, exposure times were very long. The subject had to remain still for as long as 20 minutes. By the early 1840’s, exposure times had […]
