Articles by Dan Lewis

In 1815, Europe’s powers gathered in Vienna, Austria, in an attempt to draw long-standing, mutually [...]

The image above is a painting made in 1872 by French artist Jean-Leon Gerome titled “Pollice [...]

On Christmas Eve, the legend goes, Santa Claus travels the globe leaving presents for good little boys and [...]

In 1886, Atlanta, Georgia passed a short-lived law prohibiting the sale and/or manufacture of alcohol. In [...]

Kim Jong-il, the dictator who lead North Korea for nearly two decades, died over the past weekend.  Filling [...]

    In the summer of 2001, Steven Speilberg released A.I., a movie about an android in the [...]

In 1993, the chancellor of the National University of Colombia, Antanas Mockus, addressed a crowd of students [...]

In 1995, actor Kevin Costner produced, starred in, and (uncredited) co-directed an apocalyptic movie in which [...]

Crack cocaine is a controlled narcotic (basically, an illegal drug) in the United States, Canada, the United [...]