Molasses. Chances are it’s something you don’t have in your pantry, but 100 years ago it […]
This week marks the anniversary of an very momentous event in modern civilization: Dec. 31 is […]
In a roundabout way, it is Edwin Hubble we have to thank for the Star Wars […]
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Belief in the paranormal is not limited to modern times. It began long ago with our […]
Visitors to zoos today see animals housed in large enclosures where the creatures have room to […]
We don’t call the soft drink Coca-Cola “Coke” for nothing. The original formula contained cocaine, but […]
Can something be simultaneously genius and vilely racist? This is the question posed by D.W. Griffith’s […]
Gilded Age industrialists had more money than they knew what do with. Andrew Carnegie’s diplodocus is […]
Today, news can be accessed at the touch of a button, and it’s sometimes difficult to […]
Many of the soldiers who fought for the British Empire in World War I, including those […]
In the 19th and parts of the 20th centuries, orphans, abandoned children, runaways and children whose […]