July 11, 2012 0 The Unintentional Artist Over the course of his life, Emanuel Ninger created a reported 700 works, each of which took weeks to craft. [...]
July 10, 2012 0 Meal Ticket It’s hard to find an urban area which does not have a significant homeless population. Be it New York, [...]
July 9, 2012 0 The Yellow Fleet The Suez Canal, situated in Egypt, connects the Mediterranean and Red Seas, thereby providing a naval [...]
July 6, 2012 0 The Tales of the Prairie Dog Constantine Slobodchikoff was born in China to Russian immigrants, and his family moved to San Francisco [...]
July 5, 2012 0 D-Day’s Doomed Dry Run On June 6, 1944 — D-Day — the fate of World War II hung in the balance as Allied forces attempted to [...]
July 3, 2012 0 Seeing Eye Mini-Horse Guide dogs — sometimes referred to as seeing eye dogs — have been assisting disabled people for [...]
July 2, 2012 0 Born on the Second of July… or August “In Congress, July 4, 1776,” begins the Declaration of Independence, pictured above, “a [...]
June 29, 2012 0 How a Virtual Plague Helped Epidemiologists Save Lives in the Real World When we think of pandemics, we think of the Black Death, yellow fever, typhoid, or, in more recent times, the [...]
June 28, 2012 0 Fordlandia Before World War II, most automobile tires were made from natural rubber — latex collected from rubber [...]
June 27, 2012 0 Turning Off Niagara Falls Niagara Falls is a set of three waterfalls on the United States/Canada border. Collectively, they have the [...]