No Place Like Home

Michigan Stadium. The Big House. Home of Michigan Football. One of the country's most classic, widely recognized sporting facilities, Michigan Stadium has come to symbolize the pride, tradition and excellence of the University of Michigan. There is truly no place like it on a fall Saturday after...

The C-5 Galaxy is one of the largest aircraft in the world and the largest airlifter in the Air Force inventory. The aircraft can carry a fully equipped combat-ready military unit to any point in the world on short notice and then provide the supplies required to help sustain the fighting force....

1. Every star you see in the night sky is bigger and brighter than our sun. Of the 5,000 or so stars brighter than magnitude 6, only a handful of very faint stars are approximately the same size and brightness of our sun and the rest are all bigger and brighter. Of the 500 or so that are brighte...

Joan's wardrobe throughout her 40+ year acting career was an exquisite display of trend setting fashion and tailored beauty. Her most memorable film costumes were designed by the famed designer Adrian and later by Sheila O' Brien and Jean Louis. What ever happened to all of those beautiful gowns...

Shaolin monk and martial-arts expert Caine flees China after his master is killed. Now he wanders the Old West of America, defending the helpless and beating down bad guys with his skills, all while trying to find his half-brother and evade Chinese bounty hunters.  David Carradine shaved his hea...

  Maxwell Smart, a.k.a. Agent 86, works for CONTROL, a Washington, D.C.-based counterintelligence agency. Totally inept as a secret agent, Smart can barely use the gadgetry the agency provides him (including a phone embedded in his shoe). Nevertheless, he and his fellow agents always seem to thwa...

1. He was accidentally listed as a female on his birth certificate. 2. His mom died of a brain tumor when he was less than a year old. 3. When he was first in Hollywood (1924), he went by W.C. Gable (his full name was William Clark Gable). By 1925, he had changed it to Clark Gable. 4. He had alm...

Cy Young left a legacy as a pitcher that is unlikely to ever be matched. The right-hander won 511 games during his tenure in baseball, almost 100 more than any other pitcher in history. He recorded 30 victories on five occasions and won more than 20 games 15 times.Young’s best season came in 190...

H oover Dam is as tall as a 60-story building.  It was the highest dam in the world when it was completed in 1935.  Its base is as thick as two football fields are long.  Each spillway, designed to let floodwaters pass without harming the dam itself, can handle the volume of water that flows ove...

1) A Rhino’s horn’s structure resembles a horse’s hooves. The outside is composed of soft keratin, not unlike hair and fingernails, while at its center there are dense deposits of melanin and calcium. If the horn breaks off, the rhino can grow a new one. 2) People have treasured rhino horns thro...