May 4, 2012 0 Japan’s Naked Festival Japanese men in loincloths are, amazingly, not all that much of a curiosity; after all, sumo wrestlers have [...]
May 3, 2012 0 Funding Liberty The Statue of Liberty has been gracing New York Harbor since its dedication in 1886. A gift from France, Lady [...]
May 2, 2012 0 The Bounty on Hitler The United States entered World War II in December of 1941, and only after Japanese planes bombed the U.S. [...]
May 1, 2012 0 Judges, Juries, and Executioners Dueling is a large part of American history. Perhaps the most famous one, the Aaron Burr-Alexander Hamilton [...]
April 30, 2012 0 The Weight of Love From 1968 until 2001, Fred Rogers was an important part of the morning routine of many of America’s [...]
April 27, 2012 0 Pipe Nightmare In 1974, workers began construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (now better known as the [...]
April 26, 2012 0 Cooked to Perfection The arms race is vicious and cut-throat. Competitors urgently strive to strike big-ticket deals with media [...]
April 25, 2012 0 Dueling Shields Abraham Lincoln, at 6’4″, is the tallest President in American history (tied with Lyndon B. [...]
April 24, 2012 0 Boom Goes the Natural Gas Pipeline When westerners think of Siberia, gulags and human rights violations most likely spring to mind. With its [...]
April 23, 2012 0 Almost Saved By the Bell On the morning of July 2, 1881, a man named Charles Julius Guiteau went to the Baltimore and Potomac [...]