Today’s Google doodle honors film star Mary Pickford on what would have been the actress’ 125th birthday. While best known as a leading actress during the silent film era, Pickford was also a director and producer. She co-founded the United Artists film studio, and was an original member of the …
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Today’s Google doodle marks the 175th birthday of Ida Lewis, a lighthouse keeper once hailed as “America’s Bravest Woman” for the numerous lives she saved from drowning. As the owner of the Lime Rock Lighthouse in Rhode Island, Google says Idawalley Zorada Lewis made her first save at the age …
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For someone like me who loves the decorating aspect of baking cakes, I surprised myself at how much of a challenge it was to come up with a fun cake idea for my son’s 9th birthday. The older he gets, the less fun the party themes become. But I couldn’t …
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When my little niece Bella’s 2nd birthday started to approach, I offered to make her birthday cake. My sister would typically buy birthday cakes or stick with cupcakes and I wanted to do something special for my niece. When I found out that her theme was frogs I was immediately …
Read More »Birthday Cake Fudge Brownies
I know this sounds confusing, so stranded with me and I’m flattering certain you’ll get it. You already know about a excellence compared with The World’s Greatest Fudge Brownie, right? Fudgy, chewy, rich, chocolatey, and other difference that report a best spirit ever. Well. What if we took my Buttermilk …
Read More »Happy 20th birthday, ICQ!
Uh-oh! It’s 20 years to the day since the introduction of one of the internet’s most well-remembered chat apps: ICQ. It was pretty barebones in its first form, released by its Israeli student creators in November 1996, but over the next year had versions available for Windows 95, 3.1 (not …
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