On Rainy Lake, near Fort Frances, Ontario, a mermaid has kept watch for almost 100 years.
Her story began thanks to a student who didn't want to do any chores and chose to build a sculpture instead.
This is the story of the Rainy Lake Mermaid!
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#Mariners Ken Griffey Jr. robbed Albert Belle of this home run 30 years ago today, on May 5, 1996.
Junior finished that season with 49 home runs, Belle with 48.
For decades, The Stubby Bottle ensured that Canadians knew their beer was produced within Canada by a Canadian brewery.
But in the 1980s, in the hope of boosting sales, the stubby was abandoned by breweries for the long-neck bottle.
This is the story.
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a Buffalo bakery is making speciality “Buffalo Sabre” pretzels for the playoffs, which look not unlike your classic dick and balls combo. love this level of local pride.
This is like when pickleball was invented and pickleballers were going up to tennis players saying “You play tennis? No way! I just got in to pickleball! Pretty much the same!”
That’s how I feel watching weekend drinkers struggle to eat 9 lil smokies and a coors light tallboy
With a regulation loss against the Senators, and St. Louis beating Vancouver, the Leafs are just four points up on the Blues for fifth-last in the league. The Blues also have two games in hand.
The Jets and Sharks are just behind the Leafs and just ahead of the Blues as well.
Been at ESPN a long time - this one was an all timer. Before social media, it was as viral as a story can be. I watched it on a tape in the news room. I couldn’t stop watching his teammates.