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The phrase “read them the riot act” is an idiom, meaning to speak angrily toward someone and [...]

For the most part, America’s involvement in World War II occurred outside of its borders.   As [...]

      On December 6, 1917, an explosion ravaged Halifax, Nova Scotia, killing 2,000 people and [...]

    It’s said that when inventors work their magic, all they’re really doing (not to [...]

Buried treasure.  The idea that one of us — armed nothing more than with a shovel and an X-marked map [...]

On December 1, 1955, a white man boarded a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.  The bus driver, James F. Blake, [...]

“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” Those words were [...]

You can buy nearly everything online, more often than not on Amazon.com.  It may surprise you that this [...]

Legend has it that Juan Ponce de Leon’s exploration of Florida was driven by an irrational search for [...]

This week, many American families will gather around the lunch or (and?) dinner table, feasting on a [...]