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On December 6, 1865, Georgia ratified the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and in doing so, completed [...]

There are, annually, 11 public Federal holidays in the United States, in which federal employees are given [...]

A typical door opening is about 6’8″ (2.03 meters) high. And if you’re an American who is [...]

Necessity is the mother of invention, or so the (historically difficult to attribute) saying goes. In one [...]

If you’re feeling sharp aches or a burning sensation in your knees or other joints, you maybe suffering [...]

  The map pictured above was generated from Wikipedia data. (Here’s a much larger version, and [...]

In 2008, Kevin Costner produced and starred in a movie titled Swing Vote. In the movie, Costner plays a New [...]

The Trobriand Islands are an archipelago, part of Papua New Guinea, about 100 miles northeast of Oceania, [...]

Samuel Pierpont Langley, pictured above, is not a household name, but, if history meandered a little [...]