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

The photo above is a daguerreotype — the first publicly announced type of photograph.   The [...]

> The canard: dig deep enough, and you’ll come out in China.   As children, we all tried it, [...]

In the early 1940s, at age 13, Leona Gage met a 24 year old pilot in the U.S. Air Force named Gene Ennis.  [...]

If you live in the United States, you’re probably familiar with some of the basic rights guaranteed by [...]

Imagine you are a door-to-door salesman in a town with poor urban planning.  Tasked with visiting 25 [...]

The history of the written word, tautologically, extends back to the beginning of non-oral history [...]

The boat pictured above is called a lepa-lepa, a 15 foot long, five foot wide watercraft.   While the [...]

On October 3, 1918, a French battalion of 500 soldiers serving in World War I was trapped in a hillside [...]

Sir Alec Guinness, most famously known (to his chagrin) as Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars, was an accomplished [...]