Articles by Dan Lewis

The song “Shoo Fly, Don’t Bother Me!” was published in 1869 — almost 140 years [...]

Mickey Mouse.  Bugs Bunny.  None of the Above.  Jon Gnarr. Come election day, a vote for each of the first [...]

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On April 14, 1865, just days after the end of the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln attended a [...]

The rules are simple: Rock smashes scissors, scissors cut paper, paper covers rock.  Each option perfectly [...]

Chimpanzees are regularly referred to as being one of the more human-like members of the animal kingdom.  [...]

There is an episode of Sex and the City in which Carrie, the narrator/protagonist — a sex columnist for a [...]

Fly into Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport and, if you do what most people do after a long flight, you are [...]

The picture, above, isn’t of a tree.  It’s of six trees, grafted together to create the weaved [...]

Angina — severe chest pain due to lack of blood (and therefore oxygen) in the heart muscle — [...]