Pop country singer and musician who was named the Best-Selling Solo Artist of the Century in the United States by the RIAA in 2007.
Before Fame His family hosted weekly talent shows in which he and his brother Kelly had to participate. He later earned a track scholarship to Oklahoma State University, where he threw the javelin.
Trivia His first album, an EP, hit #2 on the Country Billboard in 1989. He released six albums that went diamond by the time he returned from retirement in 2009. Read More...
On summer solstice 2019 at dawn, thousands from all corners of the world will descend on Stonehenge, the rock-forged monument in Wiltshire, England. They’re all there for the same reason: to turn northeast and catch the summer solstice sunrise glide perfectly above the stones. The view of the solstice sunrise from Stonehenge is so perfect, in fact, that visitors and scientists have wondered for centuries: Did the people who built Stonehenge intentionally make it a stage for the solstice? Read More...
Charles Ardai is nerd royalty by any reasonable standard. He founded Juno in the 1990s. He’s married to Naomi Novik. Hasn’t he done enough?
Apparently not. Charles now runs a press called Hard Case Crime, which publishes old-school pulp fiction. Mostly crime stuff, duh. But it has come to Charles’s attention that the two-fisted adventure genre — so ably revived in the form of Indiana Jones — is once again in steep decline. Read More...