Daily Archives: September 8, 2010
13 Pictures of The Spam Museum
In our travels we chanced upon a billboard advertising The Spam Museum. Though not heavy Spam eaters, we couldn’t resist. Here is a quick tour of the place. 1. The Spam Museum is attached to the Spam plant in Austin Minnesota. It’s free and open to the public. 2. When you first walk in, you’re in what appears to be a simple hall until you turn around. This display is made of cans of Spam. My first thought was thank […]
Ah, Maria, the End is Near
If Maria Theresa, Queen of Austria, was feeling her age by 1780, it isn’t hard to understand why. If she’d had only two children instead of sixteen, and those two were Marie Antoinette and Joseph, that would have been enough to age Mother Theresa prematurely. Toss in fourteen more, the rigors of not just running, but re-building the Austrian Empire from practically the ground up, starting this at age twenty-three, with no formal training, in what was very much a […]
