According to this Seattle Times story, baseballer Ichiro Suzuki will be on the Disabled List until April 15th, due to a bleeding ulcer. He’s played 807 out of 810 games in the last five seasons, and this is his first time on the DL.
According to her alma mater, Howard University in Washington, D.C., singer Roberta Flack was born in 1940, not 1939. Several sources give her birth year as 1939 — and that’s what we had. Sorry for making you out to be older than you really are, Roberta.
Jane Goodall turns 75 today.She was born in 1934 — same as Hammerin’ Hank Aaron and Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf.
One of two extant telescopes used by Galileo is in the U.S. on exhibit. Here’s the story.Here’s the telescope, which will be on display at Philadelphia’s Franklin Institute, part of an exhibit opening April 4th, "The Medici and the Age of Astronomy."
Heh: a slideshow.Those cut-ups at The Times!
And nobody seemed to mind.
A journalist from the U.K. Spectator travels to the home of reclusive author J.D. Salinger and finds a writer who doesn’t want to meet people in "What I Heard at J.D. Salinger’s Doorstep."
Barack and Michelle Obama visit Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip yesterday at Buckingham Palace.
That’s what this report from the BBC says.
New GM head is named Fritz.