by Cathy Hanson | Apr 21, 2020 | HAS, Stories
I originally wrote this post in 2016, but this is a good to time to put it out there again. I’ve made a couple of very minor changes that don’t effect the details of the story. The stories I share with you on this blog are usually about more than the...
by Cathy Hanson | Mar 31, 2020 | HAS, Stories
I hope you all are staying well. I read that in Iceland they are testing everybody for the coronavirus, not just those who present with symptoms. Although they haven’t tested the entire population yet, they have discovered that about half of those who tested positive...
by Cathy Hanson | Mar 24, 2020 | HAS, Stories
Today has been a really long week, so it seems like a good time for some birthday music, featuring a musician who was born on this date. Gabriele Susanne Kerner, better known as Nena, was born on this date in 1960. In 1983, during the early years of MTV when music...
by Cathy Hanson | Feb 25, 2020 | HAS, Stories
I had so much fun last week looking at the global history of 1863 that I wanted to try a different year. So I moved from the 19th century to the 17th century, to a time before the United States was a country. I’m going to look at 1692, the year of the Salem witch...
by Cathy Hanson | Feb 18, 2020 | HAS, Stories
I am always interested in what was happening around the world during any particular year. For this post I chose to look at 1863. In the United States, the Civil War was 1861-1865 and Americans tend to concentrate completely on that when looking at history for that...
by Cathy Hanson | Jan 22, 2020 | HAS, Stories
Last week I wrote about the division of defeated Germany and its capital city of Berlin by the Allied Powers after World War II. You may recall from that post that the eastern part of Germany was taken over by the Soviet Union, while the United States, the United...
