YouTube description: In 1951, the American F-86 Sabre went head-to-head with the Soviet MiG-15 in the skies above North Korea. Both sides wanted to capture examples of each others aircraft. The Soviets... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 days 6 hours 7 minutes ago • 441 views • 6:07

On April 3rd, 2018, resident Mark Robinson gave an impassioned speech at the Greensboro, NC, city council meeting in support of the Second Amendment. This speech is the best four minutes you'll ever watch... continue reading

posted by bobknight33 3 weeks 6 days ago • 13 views • 4:21

After suggesting that American-born congresswomen should "go back" to where they're from, Donald Trump gets a geography lesson from Wakko of the Animaniacs

posted by newtboy 2 months ago • 832 views • 1:13

An American explorer has descended nearly 11km (seven miles) to the deepest place in the ocean - the Mariana Trench in the Pacific. Victor Vescovo spent four hours exploring the bottom of the trench... continue reading

posted by newtboy 4 months 1 week ago • 1,157 views • 2:14

YouTube description: Some of the top-selling car brands in the United States are Japanese — Toyota, Honda, and Nissan especially. But the reverse isn't true – General Motors, Ford, and Fiat Chrysler... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 months ago • 722 views • 7:13

YouTube description: Micco and his older brother Samsoche (Seneca and Muscogee Creek), who perform together as the Sampson Brothers (https://sampsonbrosarts.com) are well known on powwow grounds and... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 months 3 weeks ago • 196 views • 4:21

From Youtube, "The Scotch Snap is everywhere in modern hip hop - a metrically accented sixteenth note followed by a dotted eighth note. Why is it everywhere? And where did it come from? The answer lies... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 6 months ago • 638 views • 8:12

This successful test of the upgraded and now human rated Dragon capsule is the first step towards the USA being able to send astronauts to the ISS without hitching a lift on Russian Soyuz spacecraft. ... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 months 2 weeks ago • 505 views • 4:57

YouTube description: The moon is looking more full than ever. The director Todd Douglas Miller assembles beautifully restored archival footage, blends that with audio from the astronauts and a vibrant... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 months 2 weeks ago • 306 views • 2:41

A summary of Hillary Clinton's role in the recent history of African Americans.

posted by bobknight33 6 months 3 weeks ago • 8 views • 14:24

Some American cities use buses, or trams, or trains. Peachtree City, Georgia, has a different solution: it's not quite public transit, but a hundred miles of golf cart tracks helps to keep cars off the road.

posted by nanrod 9 months 1 week ago • 956 views • 5:50

YT: In a field near Elberton, Georgia, USA, sit a set of mysterious standing stones: mysterious not because they're ancient, but because they were funded by someone anonymous in 1980, perhaps as a message... continue reading

posted by Fantomas 9 months 3 weeks ago • 393 views • 3:08

YouTube description: Live long and prosper? Nichelle Nichols sure has. At the height of the American civil rights movement, she played “Star Trek’s” Lieutenant Uhura—then one of television’s... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 10 months 2 weeks ago • 348 views • 2:58

YouTube description: Hi there! I'm (finally!) back with a new video explaining what is swing, a form of popular music developed in the United States that dominated in the 1930s and 1940s. The amazing... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 10 months 3 weeks ago • 457 views • 2:01

YouTube description: Everything seemed normal on the second leg of American Airlines Fight 96, June 12, 1972. Captain Bryce McCormick sat back to take a sip of coffee and admire the view. Then, suddenly,... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 11 months 2 weeks ago • 438 views • 11:00

"... A Quiet Place star and deaf actress Millicent Simmonds teaches you how to sign iconic lines from horror movies in American Sign Language..."

posted by ant 1 year 2 months 1 week ago • 12 views • 2:05

They're not the only ones. YouTube: On the 4th of July, Americans like to celebrate the things that make the United States unique, and a lot of those things have to do with our geography. That remarkable... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 1 year 3 months 3 weeks ago • 552 views • 3:49

As an American living in Thailand, I sometimes see Buddhist (and other Eastern religion) symbols that are pretty close to being swastikas. In many cases, I think that is done without knowledge of the... continue reading