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“Come, Watson, come! The game is afoot.”*

I was just given an interesting book: “Profile By Gaslight” edited by Edgar W. Smith, published in 1944. The sub-title is “An Irregular Reader about the Private Life of Sherlock Holmes”. It was a gift from a dear friend of mine. She was looking through her books, and since she had a copy of theContinue reading ““Come, Watson, come! The game is afoot.”*”

August 14 “Be sure to drink your Ovaltine”

August 14th is National Navajo Code Talkers Day. It is to honor the 29 Navajo Nation and Native Americans who served as radio code talkers in the Marine Corps during World War II. They used their unwritten and very complex sounding language to help with codes sent especially to the Pacific theater. Their codes andContinue reading “August 14 “Be sure to drink your Ovaltine””