August 20, 2013 0 Thomas Jefferson’s Silent Armies Thomas Jefferson was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence, the first Secretary of State of [...]
August 19, 2013 0 Freed But Not Free On December 6, 1865, the state of Georgia became the 27th state to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment to [...]
August 16, 2013 0 The Last Exit on the Information Superhighway Ten years ago, the northeastern part of the United States and much of the Canadian province of Ontario lost [...]
August 15, 2013 0 Reversing the Charges Twenty thousand words. That’s roughly the equivalent of a thirty to forty page high school [...]
August 14, 2013 0 Paved With Good Intentions In 1925, a newspaper called the St. Louis Star-Times came up with a strange promotion. They secured a [...]
August 13, 2013 0 Hot Like Wasabi Wasabi is a plant native to Japan, and in the same biological family as mustard, cabbage, and [...]
August 12, 2013 0 A Penny Earned Pictured below is the Fugio cent, the first coin ever minted by the United States pursuant to the [...]
August 9, 2013 0 No La Tengo In 1984, husband and wife duo Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley formed a musical group called Yo La Tengo. [...]
August 8, 2013 0 Putting It Together Again If you grew up in the United States or likely anywhere else in the English-speaking world, [...]
August 7, 2013 0 Silent Protest On November 21, 2004, voters in the Ukraine took to the polls to elect a prime minister. The [...]