Articles by Dan Lewis

  “Jingle Bells” has been staple song of the holiday season in the United States for decades [...]

King Alexander I of Yugoslavia was assassinated on October 9, 1934. His son, Peter, was only 11 at the time, [...]

  There’s Kathleen Vernon of Albany County, Wyoming. Then there’s Jim Faulk — [...]

  If you’re working a desk job with typical hours, work comes to a halt around noon each day as [...]

In 1992, a man named Marvin Heemeyer purchased two acres of land in Granby, Colorado, about a two hour drive [...]

Four miles per hour. Even if you’re more familiar with the metric system, you probably can figure out [...]

  Frane Selak, above, was born in 1929 in the part of former Yugoslavia which is now Croatia. Little is [...]

    Sometimes, while driving, one comes to an intersection with lots of signs, many lanes, and a [...]

On December 17, 1903, the Wright brothers took to a beach near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, with a contraption [...]

On December 31, 2007, Curtis Gokey of Lodi, California, ran into a little bit of bad luck. A municipal worker [...]