Month: May 2020

James Derham was born a slave in 1762 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At eleven years old, he was...

On the evening before Halloween in 1938, American radio listeners heard alarming news of strange...

As one of the wealthiest people of his time, Howard Hughes was born in 1905 to an American family...

At least 140 people died attempting to cross the nearly 12-foot high, 27-mile long Berlin Wall...

What do iPads, computer hackers, bionic limbs, mass surveillance, and the moons of Mars have in...

According to legend, in 1776 when America was on the brink of declaring its independence, George...

It was 1933 and the Nazis were on a steady rise to power in Germany, but not without government...