On This Day
1918 – Women enlist in the United States Marine Corps for the first time. Opha May Johnson is the first woman to enlist.
Opha May Johnson (née Jacob, May 4, 1878 – August 11, 1955)[1] was the first woman known to have enlisted in the United States Marine Corps. She joined the Marine Corps Reserve on August 13, 1918, officially becoming the first female Marine.[2]
Born On This Day
1904 – Margaret Tafoya, Native American Pueblo potter (d. 2001)[14]
Maria Margarita “Margaret” Tafoya (Tewa name: Corn Blossom; August 13, 1904 – February 25, 2001)[1] was the matriarch of Santa Clara Pueblo potters.[2] She was a recipient of a 1984 National Heritage Fellowship awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts, which is the United States government’s highest honor in the folk and traditional arts.[3]
FYI
By David McCann, Food & Wine: Even If You Never Met Him, Nach Waxman Changed the Way You Cook The Kitchen Arts & Letters founder died this week at the age of 84. Longtime KAL patron and F&W Test Kitchen Assistant David McCann pays tribute to the man who made cookbooks his life.
STORIES FROM NORTHERN CANADA AND ALASKA: Standing on Their Heads to Sleep
By Ernie Smith, Tedium: This Old Scandal Why Bob Vila, perhaps the most famous handyman in history, may have set the stage for a digital era in which stars aren’t afraid to cash in on their names.
Cool site: Youarelistening.to pairs a city’s police scanner with ambient music. It’s very “Blade Runner.”
By CATHY BUSSEWITZ and MARTHA IRVINE, AP News: Forgotten oil and gas wells linger, leaking toxic chemicals
Bloomberg Business Week: To Fight Wildfires, California Turns to a Family With a Fleet of $8,000-an-Hour Helicopters Coulson Aviation’s night-flying, water-siphoning Chinooks are on call to battle blazes on four continents.
Royal Museums Greenwich: Astronomy Photographer of the Year shortlist See the shortlisted images from the world’s greatest space photography competition
What Should I Read Next? Enter a book you like and the site will analyse our huge database of real readers’ favorite books to provide book recommendations and suggestions for what to read next.
Cool site: This website matches music to whatever you type. Write a message, replay it, and share it with others.
Ideas
By Cari @ Everything Pretty: DIY Disinfecting Wipes With 70% Alcohol and Hydrogen Peroxide
Recipes
By Caroline Stanko, Taste of Home: 85 Kids Birthday Party Food Ideas
By Caroline Stanko, Taste of Home: 40 Birthday Dinner Ideas Our Readers Love
By Julie Meyers, Taste of Home: 33 Birthday Cake Ideas
Susan Ormond, Jamestown, North Carolina, Taste of Home: Texas Sheet Cake
By Betty Crocker Kitchens: Banana Cream Pie-in-a-Bowl
DamnDelicious
RecipeTinEats
- Spinach French Onion Cob Dip – Australia’s favourite dip! June 19, 2026Meet Australia’s favourite dip!!! This Spinach French Onion Cob Dip is made using a French Onion Soup mix and is served in a cob bread loaf. It is unapologetically retro, gloriously unfashionable, breaks every real-food rule I preach, and is completely addictive!! Spinach French Onion Cob Dip This dip has been a fixture at Australian... […]Nagi
- Easy Slow Cooker BBQ Shredded Beef June 16, 2026Slow Cooker BBQ Shredded Beef is what you make when you want a big batch of crowd-pleasing food with relatively little effort. The succulent pulled beef is smothered in an incredible homemade barbecue sauce, and there’s so many ways to serve it – pile into sliders, heap onto plates or stuff into baked potatoes! Easy... […]Nagi
wikimedia
- Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for June 20 June 20, 2026Picture of the day Flower of a Geranium sanguineum, bloody crane's-bill. Focus stack of 51 photos.
- Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for June 19 June 19, 2026Picture of the day Alley on Escheckstraße (and part of the cuckoo clock trail), Schönwald im Schwarzwald, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
E-book Deals:
The Book Junction: Where Readers Go To Discover Great New Fiction!
Mystery & Thriller Most Wanted
Book Blogs & Websites:
Welcome to the Stump the Bookseller blog!
Stump the Bookseller is a service offered by Loganberry Books to reconnect people to the books they love but can’t quite remember. In brief (for more detailed information see our About page), people can post their memories here, and the hivemind goes to work. After all, the collective mind of bibliophiles, readers, parents and librarians around the world is much better than just a few of us thinking. Together with these wonderful Stumper Magicians, we have a nearly 50% success rate in finding these long lost but treasured books. The more concrete the book description, the better the success rate, of course. It is a labor of love to keep it going, and there is a modest fee. Please see the How To page to find price information and details on how to submit your Book Stumper and payment.
Thanks to everyone involved to keep this forum going: our blogging team, the well-read Stumper Magicians, the many referrals, and of course to everyone who fondly remembers the wonder of books from their childhood and wants to share or revisit that wonder. Isn’t it amazing, the magic of a book?