The Walnut Street Theatre, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is the oldest continuously-operating theater in America. Its first...
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In the years leading up to British Columbia’s entrance into the Confederation of Canada, a series of...
Beekeeping is one of the oldest forms of food production—humans have been harvesting honey from bee colonies...
Organized by women’s rights advocates Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, the two-day Seneca Falls Convention was...
Hitler dictated his manifesto, whose title means “my struggle,” while serving a prison term for treason. The...
I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled. Read More Tags...
Having welcomed more than 650 million visitors since its opening, Disneyland is perhaps the world’s most famous...
Monticello—”little mountain” in Italian—is the estate designed and built by Thomas Jefferson, based on the classical style...
In March 1993, astronomers Carolyn and Eugene Shoemaker and David Levy made the first observation of a...
Early in the 15th century, the Teutonic Order, a German military religious order founded during the Third...
The Football War was a four-day war fought between El Salvador and Honduras. Though political tensions between...
Glassblowing is the art of shaping molten glass into a vessel by blowing air into it through...
The New York City blackout of 1977 came at a low point in New York history, when...
Oxford is one of the oldest English-language universities in the world. A leading center of learning throughout...
Baryshnikov is a world renowned Russian-American dancer and choreographer. He began studying dance in Riga, Latvia, where...
The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration awarded by the US. It is presented by...