The author of the Headless Horseman, a 19th-century viral stunt, a beloved folksy character, and a pair of shorts: the long, strange trip of the name Knickerbocker. 🏀 #nyknicks
If you're a @nyknicks fan, you may know that the original - and still official - name of the basketball team is the New York Knickerbockers. But where did the name "Knickerbocker" come from? And how is it connected to NYC? 🏀
Find out here: https://t.co/FnESDEQuah
#AlwaysKnicks
Memorial Day isn’t about cookouts or beach days. It’s about the Americans who made the ultimate sacrifice so the rest of us could live free.
THIS 60-SECOND VIDEO REMINDS US WHAT THE DAY IS REALLY ABOUT. 🇺🇸
“I’m the space plumber, I’m proud to call myself the space plumber.”
Mission specialists like @Astro_Christina train for all roles so they can jump in wherever they’re needed. Sometimes that means fixing vital machinery, like the spacecraft toilet.
Imagine, in the 21st century, discovering a marvel on par with Mount Everest or the Grand Canyon. It happened. This Sunday, 60 Minutes takes you inside the world’s largest cave passage, which was discovered in Vietnam in 2009. Sunday.
@jakonrath I’m always interested in the author, though. I enjoy being able to explore more beyond the books. For example, reading your blog. Ai might write a bestseller, but I’ll always be interested in Hemingway and HST, where the personae are part of the appeal.
Captivated by the @netflix documentary Apollo 11. 🌓And it’s remarkable how JFK’s words in 1961 set in motion a chain of events that culminated in a manned moon mission in 1969. The power of declaring a dream and building it into existence.
"So for all the young people out there, those dreams are formed now. Go chase 'em and go get em, because our country loves sports and it brings us together unlike anything else." --Mike Tirico #winterolympics#olympics#motivation#goals
“What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years.”
— Carl Sagan
There should be an Olympic sport for commuting. 🚉
🥇 Sprinting to catch the train as the doors close
🥈 Subway platform slalom
🥉 Traffic endurance: longest time spent motionless Bonus points for doing it all with coffee in one hand. #Olympics2026#Olympics
Today is National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. Pause and remember those lives lost on what would become a "Date which will live in infamy". 🇺🇸
#PearlHarbor84#PearlHarborRemembranceDay
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION by Ken Burns is a six-part documentary series premiering this weekend on @PBS . I am honored to voice one of many voices in this monumental film. A MUST WATCH! 🔥
The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers, published by Harper and Brothers in 1902.
This is the first illustrated edition of Chambers' infamous collection of eerie short stories centered around a mysterious play that drives its readers to irredeemable madness.
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BREAKING NEWS
The 2025 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.”