I am old enough to remember the good ole days of the old fashioned full service gas stations. Take a look at a photo gallery at Time Magazine of the history of gas stations. Getty Images Ardmore, Oklahoma, c. 1920 A group of attendants sit on one of the paved entrances to a station. Location Unknown, U.S., Circa 1926 The price on this pump works out to 17 cents per gallon.  Read More at Time Magazine http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,2082591_2292327,00.html

Space Shuttle: The Last Mission. (2011). The History Channel website. Retrieved 8:29, July 12, 2011, from http://www.history.com/videos/space-shuttle-the-last-mission. Space Shuttle: The Last Mission (4:57) Space shuttle Atlantis is set to lift off on the final flight of the storied shuttle program this summer, marking the end of an era for NASA.

Source: Scientific America An experiment conceived a half century ago has confirmed Einstein’s general relativity predictions of the spacetime effects of Earth’s mass and spin. Karen Hopkin reports  | May 6, 2011 | Albert Einstein wins again. A new study has confirmed another prediction of his theory of general relativity. The corroboration appears online in the journal Physical Review Letters. [Francis Everitt et al., citation to come.] Einstein’s theory recognizes that massive objects warp the very fabric of space and time. If the theory is true, then the Earth should stretch the spacetime in which it sits, like a bowling ball would deform a trampoline. What’s more, the Earth’s rotation should also produce a…

The1850’s in America were ripe with sectional tension. The issue of slavery had become the predominate issue that would permeate local, state and national politic’s for the entire decade of the 1850s. One of the battle ground territories during this period was Kansas. On July 3rd, 1856, the federal House of Representatives votes to admit Kansas as a state into he union, however the Senate rejects the bill. Almost five years later, Congress does admit Kansas as the 34th and more importantly, as a slave free state on January 29th, 1861.

While waiting in the oppessive heat at the railroad station that was summer in Washington, D.C., President James Garfield was gunned down by a person who some called a mad man. The date was July 2, 1881. Garfield, was born in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, the last of the “log cabin presidents”, in 1831. He served from Ohio in the House of Representatives beginning in 1862 after a brief stint in the military during the Civil War. In 1880, he became a dark horse candidate for the office of the president on the 36th ballot. That fall he won a narrow victory over Democrat Winfield Scott Hancock also a veteran of…

By MATT DUNHAM Associated Press LONDON July 1, 2011 (AP) ABC Article Admirers of the late Princess Diana gathered outside Kensington Palace on Friday, a bright sunny day that would have been the troubled royal’s 50th birthday. Cards, a cake, a collage and other mementoes were among the gifts left at the gates of Kensington Palace, where Diana once lived — an echo of the massive, makeshift memorial set up there following her 1997 death in a Paris car crash. “She would’ve been so popular still. Everyone would have been here to help celebrate,” said Kathy Martin, a 49-year-old childcare worker from Australia. “We’ll never get to see her grow…