April 19, 2013 0 Something Old, Something Blue The Battle of Gettysburg is generally considered to be a symbolic turning point of the American [...]
April 18, 2013 0 Seeing is Disbelieving During World War II, the UK and U.S. focused their air warfare plans on the use of strategic [...]
April 17, 2013 0 Five Cents for a Half-Century Coca-Cola was invented by an Atlanta pharmacist in 1886, with bottles of the bubbly elixir [...]
April 16, 2013 0 Dabbawala The man pictured above is a dabbawala. The two dozen or so metallic cylindrical containers [...]
April 15, 2013 0 Off the Jobbik The Jobbiks are small but significant political party in Hungary, holding 43 of the 368 seats in the [...]
April 12, 2013 0 Two Bad Teeth George W. Bush was President of the United States from January 2001 until January of 2009, [...]
April 11, 2013 0 Snakes on a Boat The brown tree snake, pictured above, typically grows to a length of about one to two meters [...]
April 10, 2013 0 Frozen Film Until 1951, motion pictures were filmed on nitrocellulose which is highly flammable. When it burns, [...]
April 9, 2013 0 Too Much Pain In 1985, a man named Richard Paey was in a car accident outside of Philadelphia. The accident [...]
April 8, 2013 0 Saving 6,000 Chiune Sugihara died on July 31, 1986, in Japan. To his neighbors, he was just another guy. He had worked as [...]