Month: January 2015

Today, chess is one of those games that is reserved for those with the intellectual capacity to be able to ...

We're often warned that we need to work on keeping our personal information secret. While it might seem pretty obvious ...

On October 17, 1814, in an incident known as the London Beer Flood, a large vat of beer at a ...

In the wake of the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912, the US passed the Seamen's Act which required ...

We've all heard the stories about names being changed as people passed through Ellis Island. It just isn't true, though; ...

In 1971, the world was introduced to the Tasaday, a presumably Stone Age tribe of peaceful people living in the ...

In an attempt to stem the tide of illegal alcohol that was being manufactured, sold, and consumed during the middle ...

Everyone knows that van Gogh once took a straight razor to his own ear and lopped off a good part ...

Many literature professors consider Herman Melville’s classic tale of whale vs. whalers the first and only American epic. Whatever we ...

For over 65 years, computer scientists have used the Turing Test as a way to judge computer intelligence. Programs that ...

Rome wasn't always the capital of the Roman Empire, and from A.D. 208--211 and again from 305--306, the capital of ...

We're familiar with white noise, and some of us even rely on it to get to sleep at night. While ...

Gary Thomasson was an American baseball player who lost his mojo when he moved to Japan. But despite his less-than-stellar ...

Although it’s sometimes said there were no enemy-inflicted deaths on the US mainland during World War II, that’s not actually ...

On February 26, 1822, a junk ship by the name of the Tek Sing sank beneath the treacherous waters of ...

In 1971, a plane crashed in the Peruvian jungles on Christmas Eve. All aboard were killed, except for 17-year-old Juliane ...

During the Franco-Prussian War, the people of Paris found themselves in a rather bad spot. Totally cut off by an ...

With his famous facial hair and trademark white suit, Colonel Sanders is one of the most recognizable people on the ...

We tend to think that we smell with our nose, but we've recently found that nearly every single organ in ...

Wilmer McLean was an unwilling eyewitness to what his fellow Southerners called the War for State’s Rights. He was a ...

According to James Schafer, head of the Royal Fraternity of Master Metaphysicians, the key to raising an immortal baby is ...