A Pole-Sitting Champ Finds Out It’s Lonely At The Top (Cool Weird Awesome 136)
Richard "Dixie" Blandy called himself the greatest flagpole sitter of all time - they say he spent more time atop flagpoles than most flags.
Richard "Dixie" Blandy called himself the greatest flagpole sitter of all time - they say he spent more time atop flagpoles than most flags.
Do people still say “look, it’s Halley’s Comet” as a distraction, or is that over for the next 40 years or so?
It's the 243rd birthday of the United States, and we've done a lot of celebrating over those years. But what were people doing on the Fourth of July before American independence? One of the most interesting stories is from July 4, 1054 - in China.