The terrorist bomb that brought down New York-bound Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killed all...
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Early American settlers in the western territories depended on the Mississippi River’s port of New Orleans for...
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. Read More Tags...
Sacred to Hindus, the 1,560-mile (2,510-km) Ganges River in northern India rises from the Gangotri glacier in...
The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read. Read More...
More than 1,000 people died when the General Slocum, a passenger steamship, caught fire in New York’s...
A sonnet is a poem with 14 lines, invented in 13th-century Italy and perfected by Petrarch. The...
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one...
Now a beloved Christmastime classic, The Nutcracker ballet premiered at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia,...
Monks at the Hospice of the St. Bernard Pass in the Swiss Alps originally bred the St....
One of the most popular animated TV shows in US history, The Simpsons has earned its spot...
Ornamental cherry trees and their blossoms are a major symbol of Japan, where they are called sakura...
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the...
This major German counter-offensive on the Western Front during World War II was the largest and bloodiest...
Table tennis originated in 19th-century England and soon spread to several European countries and to the US....
Three years after the first manned space flight, NASA launched the Gemini program, a series of two-man...
Brain, n.: An apparatus with which we think we think. Read More Tags : World Sort Story,...
The escalator has come a long way since being patented in 1859. Hong Kong’s Central-Mid-Levels escalator system...
Considered the inventor of quantum theory, Max Planck shocked the science world by showing that atoms emit...