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On April Fools’ Day, it’s tricky to determine what’s true and what’s a lie, so it’s only appropriate that the holiday’s origins are...

On April Fools’ Day, it’s hard to separate fact from fiction, as mischievous pranksters pull lighthearted gags around the world. On some...

It was one of the first grand-scale public works projects in the United States, and perhaps the most successful as well. Completed in...

By Peggy Perkins Frances Perkins was horrified at the work that many women and children had to do in factories. There were absolutely no...

Every year, on March 17, St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated in earnest all over the world. Although the holiday has become synonymous with...

Every March 17, people all around the world come together to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, a holiday that blends Irish heritage with...

As mid-March approaches, you’ll no doubt hear the oft-repeated saying “Beware the ides of March.” It’s a strangely archaic phrase that...

In Greek mythology, the Titan Prometheus stole fire from the Olympian gods and gave it to mortals. Zeus punished this theft by nailing...

After billions of years of evolution, the animal kingdom has developed a few tactics for dealing with the Earth’s fluctuating seasons....

I Charlie Brown and his gang of lovable young’uns are bonafide stars when it comes to classic American comic strip characters. Peanuts ,...

NASA streamed a cat video to Earth from 19 million miles away On October 13, 2023, NASA launched a spacecraft on a six-year journey to...

Humans have long sought to control time. While it’s generally considered impossible to bend time to our will, there are two days of the...

As of 2022, there are 7.9 billion people living on Earth — an especially astounding fact when you consider that a little over two...

New York City’s subway system is one of the largest in the world, operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week, in a city of more than 8...

If seeing the northern lights is on your bucket list, you’re not alone. Catching a glimpse of what some call “nature’s fireworks” is an...

The internet may have made spoilers more common, but it certainly didn’t invent them. Back in 1940, for instance, the Los Angeles Times ...

Hollywood was on the cusp of some major changes by the late 1920s. The advent of the technology that produced "talkies" such as 1927's...

By the end of the 1970s, Hollywood screenwriter Robert Towne had reached the pinnacle of his profession by way of his celebrated work on...

Cat tongues are rough because they are covered with papillae. These are rows of rough bumps that help cats scrape hair off the hides and...

Humans have been building structures pretty much since the evolution of our species. Every corner of the planet has seen houses, temples,...