Bathroom Readers' Institute's Blog, page 13
May 8, 2020
The K-Pop Lingo Guide
Are your kids super into BTS, and other K-pop singing groups? Here’s a little primer so you can figure out what they’re talking about. K-pop. Korean pop music, generally sung by medium-to-large groups of telegenic singers while performing complicated choreography. Bagel. It’s a portmanteau to describe pop stars who are both baby-faced and glamorous. Bias. A good bias — favoritism or […]
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April 20, 2020
Fun Facts About Babe Ruth
Babe Ruth was one of the greatest baseball players of all time, and in his heyday, he was one of the highest paid athletes and most famous people in the world. Nowadays, he’s the subject of Portable Press’s Show Me History: Babe Ruth, the story of the slugger’s life in graphic novel form. Here are […]
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5 Things You Didn’t Know About the Spanish Flu
This year, the world has dealt with a pandemic — an epidemic of an illness, but on a global scale — the likes of which most of us haven’t seen in our lifetimes. The novel coronavirus, or COVID-19 has changed daily life (and terrified) billions, and it’s the first time in about a century humanity […]
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April 16, 2020
The Worst Albums Ever Made
With virtually all of recorded music at your fingertips when you open Spotify or Apple Music, it can be overwhelming to decide what to listen you. Allow us to help: Avoid these albums at all costs. Kevin Federline, Playing with Fire Hitting stores in 2006 was the first (and so far, only) album by Federline, a […]
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April 13, 2020
Great Moments in Graphic Novels
For years, Portable Press has brought you fantastic nonfiction books, but recently we decided to take a whole new approach. Introducing Show Me History!, biographies of famous, notable, and important people presented in the graphic novel format. What’s a graphic novel? It’s kind of like a really long comic book. Here’s a bit more about the […]
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March 6, 2020
See You Later: A Few Amazing Late-Blooming Ladies
They say it’s never too late to succeed in life, and it was true for these highly accomplished women who found fame and fortune after 40. The late Mary Higgins Clark (she passed away in February 2020) is among the bestselling authors of all time. More than 100 million copies of the more than 50 mystery […]
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February 21, 2020
A Few Forgotten Female Inventors
They say that necessity is the mother of invention…and here then are some “mothers” or very important technologies. El Dorado Jones After listening to women’s suffrage crusader Susan B. Anthony speak at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, El Dorado quit her job selling insurance and went into the more lucrative world of advertising. She soon […]
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February 18, 2020
Secret Agent Men (And Women)
You know, you think you know somebody—like famous movie stars, musicians, politicians, and historical figures—and then you come to find out that they all worked as spies for the government. (They must have been pretty good spies then!)
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December 26, 2019
What Are the Odds of a Very Odd Death?
Chances are, old age or a chronic condition is what will get you, so don’t worry so much about these unlikely, but potential, killers lurking all around. Icicles Ever hear that old riddle about how the “perfect” murder weapon is an icicle because it melts, thus destroying all evidence of its existence? Those sharp shards […]
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December 12, 2019
They Took All the Credit
It’s rare that an amazing achievement that stands the test of time was created by just one person. (Even Uncle John has a staff of writers and researchers.) Here are some things associated with a single individual…who got a lot of help from an associate. Jack Daniel The 19th century Tennessee-based distiller is so strongly […]
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