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Happy 70th Birthday to Jeff Greenwald, traveler, award-winning author, monologist, and photographer. Believing that "every time I set off on a journey, I feel...

50 years ago today, a very special performance was held at Berkeley University to witness the singing of the Hymn to Nikkal. It had...

125 years ago today, President William McKinley signed into law a bill creating Mount Rainier National Park, the fifth in the nation, in order...

Gardeners are playing a critical role in detecting invasive plants before it's too late, according to a new study. Along with detecting, gardeners are best...

2,771 years ago today, the Neo Babylonian king Nabonassar assumed the throne of the great city, which isn't necessarily good news in itself, but...

Apes have a sense of humor similar to humans, suggests a new study that showed four species of great apes each playfully teasing each...

129 years ago today, The Importance of Being Earnest, a play by Irish writer Oscar Wilde, debuted in the St. James Theater of London....

Every child born into the Morgan family of Cheshire will be able to hold in their hands a very unique piece of World War...

100 years ago today, George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, a mix of classical music with modern effects written for piano and jazz band, premiered...

2,684 years ago today is the traditional date for the foundation of the earliest centralized state on the islands of Japan. Descendant of the...

By Ebed de Rosary In March 2021, Davis Marthin Damaledo set out on foot accompanied by his father, Dantje, to pursue his childhood fascination with...

On this day 39 years ago, and in a charming little stint of political theater, the mayor of Rome, Ugo Vettere, and his counterpart...

Playing a musical instrument has obvious rewards: the sense of fun and enjoyment, the ability to express feelings in different ways, and the satisfaction...

60 years ago today, the British Invasion arrived in the US after The Beatles reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with I Want...

104 years ago today, Mazda was incorporated as "Toyo Cork Kogyo Co. Ltd." a cork-making factory, by Jujiro Matsuda. 11 years later, it started...

At a little-known historical site from the Mayan Empire in Guatemala, the jade funerary mask of a great king was discovered by archaeologists. In the...

210 years ago today, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc was born in Paris. As an architect, his fame blossomed from his work restoring dozens of France's most...

Phillip II of Macedon was one of the most famous names in the Classical Greek world. He changed Macedon from a rustic backwater into...

25 years ago today, The Sopranos debuted on HBO. Running for 6 seasons totaling 86 episodes, it is widely regarded as one of the greatest and...

On this day 375 years ago, perhaps the greatest physicist the world has known, Isaac Newton, was born. Widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time, he invented his own calculus when he was 26 years old. An English mathematician, astronomer, and theologian, his book Principia, “Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy”, formulated our understanding of the mechanics of motion and gravity, which dominated scientists’ view of the physical universe for the next three centuries. This farmer’s son also built the first practical reflecting telescope, and made pathbreaking observations in optics, figuring out that white light is really made of multiple colors. WATCH a cool video... (1543)