Articles by Dan Lewis

Back to the Future celebrated its 25th anniversary this past summer.  In the near-instant classic, Marty [...]

When Americans think of traitors, Benedict Arnold springs to mind. But seventy years later, a much larger [...]

        Locals call it “The Door to Hell.”   The name does it justice.  The picture, above, [...]

In 1883, the Indonesian volcanic island of Krakatoa exploded.  The explosion was so loud that, reportedly, [...]

The end of World War II was marked by the Americans dropping two atomic bombs on Japan, which teed off a [...]

The image above — click here for a larger version — is from a book called the Voynich [...]

Argleton, Lancashire, United Kingdom.  Where is it?  That map above is a screen shot, via Wikipedia, of an [...]

In 2003, Disney and Pixar released Finding Nemo — a ended up with a smash hit on their hands.  It [...]

The slogan “no taxation without representation” was prevalent in Boston in the years leading up [...]

Lemmings.  They jump off cliffs, en masse, following each other toward certain death. Ok, not really.  The [...]