OFFICIAL BIRTH DATE OF ORGANIZED CHEERLEADING – NOV. 2, 1898   World’s first cheerleader Johnny Campbell – University of Minnesota   Organized cheerleading started out as an all-male activity. In 1898, University of Minnesota student Johnny Campbell directed a crowd in cheering “Rah, Rah, Rah! Ski-u-mah, Hoo-Rah! Hoo-Rah! Varsity! Varsity! Varsity, Minn-e-So-Tah!”, making [...]

  HISTORY’S GREATEST MUSTACHE   Photograph by MATTHEW BRADY   Photograph by MATTHEW BRADY & LEVIN CORBIN HANDY   Hogan. Selleck. Chaplin. All magnificent mustaches. All pale in comparison to Ambrose Everett Burnside (May 23, 1824 – September 13, 1881), history’s greatest mustache. If the pictures above haven’t already made that abundantly clear, then the [...]

Photograph by PAULUS MAXIMUS     Once a year in May, the Garden of Cosmic Speculation by Charles Jencks is open to the public. The garden is located on a private residence known as the Portrack House near the town of Dumfries in Scotland. Started in 1988 it was dedicated to Jencks’ late wife Maggie [...]