(source: www.parliament.uk)
The Palace of Westminster was burned down on the night of October 16th, 1834. Only a few pieces survived the fire, and were inte...
Known for his influential work during the beat generation Jack Kerouac is considered one the greats in the literary world. Kerouac is known for Big Sur, On the ...
In a dark and damp storage unit in New York City, boxes of undeveloped images sat waiting to be found for over a decade. The contents of the unit were being pre...
PHOTO: theworldofchinese.com
Last time, in History's Nutcases, we covered Caligula. This time in the series, we're taking a look at another insane ruler fro...
This is the fourth of a four part series on the history of vaccines.
source: historyofvaccines.org
Vaccines have now saved millions of lives. Still, progre...
Yesterday we left off with Hemingway marrying his third wife Martha Gellhorn on November 20th, 1940. Once Ernest and Martha were married, they moved into a Summ...
On April 14th, 1912 at 11:40 p.m. the Titanic hit an iceberg that marked the beginning of the fateful night for over 1,500 people. The ship officially sank a fe...
Film and the First World War
In 1905 the first successful Nickelodeon was opened in Pittsburgh, this particular establishment had enough films to fill a half h...
We hear a lot about great writers in school. Mostly the likes of Plato, or Shakespeare, or Dickens. That's all well and good, but there are some female writers ...
