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Racetrack Playa (Google Maps view here) is a 2.8 mile long, 1.5 mile wide dry lake in California’s [...]

  The Internet. The automobile. Toilet paper. All of these things have been heralded to be the greatest [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]