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World's Oldest Hockey Stick To Be Auctioned

Via new hockey blog On Frozen Pond comes word that the world’s oldest hockey stick will soon be put up for auction on eBay with proceeds going to charity.

Oldest Hockey Blade

Comes with its own custom 150lb glass display case—imagine the shipping!!!

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Place Name Where?

A sampling of some recent photos, bookmarks and news stories I've flagged elsewhere with this tag.

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  • Flickr: The Commons

    Back in June of 2007, we began our first collaboration with a civic institution to facilitate giving people a voice in describing the content of a publicly-held photography collection. The key goals of this pilot project are to firstly give you a taste of the hidden treasures in the huge Library of Congress collection, and secondly to show how your input of a tag or two can make the collection even richer.

  • U.S. Grant death mask
  • My NJ Bookshelf
  • FUELsomething
  • Boiler Room
  • stairway from heaven
  • tracks
  • reclamation
  • up to the heavens
  • radar platform
  • art in the park
  • danger high voltage plants
  • reclaimed entrance
  • Who Was General Tso And Why Are We Eating His Chicken? (washingtonpost.com)

    Each evening, thousands of Americans drift into Chinese restaurants or, if they are too lazy to go out, pick up the phone and order one of the most popular dishes on the menu: General Tso's Chicken, a sugary-spicy melange of dark-meat tidbits, deep-fried then fired up with ginger, garlic, sesame oil, scallions and hot chili peppers. Not one in 10,000 knows who General Tso (most commonly pronounced "sow") was, nor what terrible times he lived through, nor the dark massacres that distinguished his baleful, belligerent career.

  • Who Was General Tso And Why Are We Eating His Chicken? (washingtonpost.com)

    Each evening, thousands of Americans drift into Chinese restaurants or, if they are too lazy to go out, pick up the phone and order one of the most popular dishes on the menu: General Tso's Chicken, a sugary-spicy melange of dark-meat tidbits, deep-fried then fired up with ginger, garlic, sesame oil, scallions and hot chili peppers. Not one in 10,000 knows who General Tso (most commonly pronounced "sow") was, nor what terrible times he lived through, nor the dark massacres that distinguished his baleful, belligerent career.

  • The Origin of Father's Day

    The idea of Father's Day was conceived by Sonora Dodd of Spokane, Wash., while she listened to a Mother's Day sermon in 1909, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.