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The modern Olympic Games began anew in Athens, Greece, in 1896.   Thirteen or fourteen nations (explained [...]

Protruding off the southeastern shore of Greece into the Aegean Sea is a mountainous peninsula called Mount [...]

On May 1, 1952, the Hassenfeld Bros. toy company — later, and currently, Hasbro — brought to [...]

In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, author Douglas Adams concocts the “Total Perspective [...]

By now, even people living in caves in Afghanistan probably know that Osama bin Laden is dead.  The scourge [...]

The Spanish-American War came to a close, informally, on August 12, 1898, as hostilities ended.  While the [...]

In 1998, the U.S. Federal Highway Authority released a report noting that driving either much slower or [...]

Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roche Gilbert du Motier, better known as the Marquis de Lafayette (pictured right), [...]

In 1969, Frank Sinatra released My Way, one of the most recognizable songs ever recorded.  It peaked at #27 [...]

On April 12, 1861, the newly formed Confederate States of America fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina, [...]