Articles by Dan Lewis

With rare exception, American involvement in World War II was focused in Europe and the Pacific. Few acts of [...]

Moises Alou was born to be a baseball player. His father, Felipe Alou, played Major League Baseball from 1958 [...]

Pictured above is an airplane towing a message. It’s a curious but probably effective form of [...]

In 1979, Ashrita Furman, then age 24, decided to make an attempt at a life-long dream: break a world record. [...]

In 1970, an Australian wheat farmer by the name of Leonard George Casley owned a farm with nearly 10,000 [...]

When the pipes under your sink spring a leak, you call a plumber. But what does New York City do when the [...]

Almost the entire world — even those societies which have separate calendering systems — use the [...]

The Western depiction of life in the Soviet Union could have accurately be described is cold, gray, and [...]

The U.S. Constitution specifically gives Congress the power to coin money, and an 1884 Supreme Court [...]

On August 23, 2011, an earthquake of magnitude 5.8 struck central Virginia, causing reverberations up and [...]