Saturday, February 18, 2017

Best Presidents Survey





Who have been the best past presidents?

C-SPAN has released its 2017 survey of presidential leadership showing rankings in overall performance and in 10 other categories.  Abraham Lincoln and George Washington were in the top two overall rankings.

See the full survey for all of our past presidents here:

http://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000015a-4d99-d5b6-a35f-ffff4eae0001

Thursday, February 16, 2017

The Way We Were

Science traces Delmarva's climate history over time from periods of warmth to sub-zero almost tundra like conditions, and a geologic history of the Atlantic coastline being well west of what now is Delmarva to a time when the Delmarva coast extended some 80 miles farther east than at present.


Read more about it on this Sunday's Time Machine here at The Pocomoke Public Eye.

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Sunday, February 12, 2017

TIME MACHINE: 1892, 1975, 1936, 1923, 2007.

(Reader-friendly viewing of news archives/historical archives material)

July, 1892

The Morning News (Wilmington)

December, 1975
The Daily Times


February, 1936

The Pantagraph (Bloomington, Ill.)


August, 1923

The News Journal (Wilmington)

Footnote:  There was stock car racing at the Pocomoke Fairgrounds track in the late 1940's and early 1950's.


ACROSS THE USA

July, 2007

The Ithaca Journal (Ithica, NY)


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