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Electricity Efforts to understand and harness electricity began in the 18th century. Scientists thought electricity could be used to create a cheap way for people to light their homes. One ...

An 18-year-old Richard Auber had just begun his music degree with money he borrowed from his parents. “Musicians ...

On a summer’s afternoon in 1920, 14-year-old Philo Taylor Farnsworth was plowing a potato field on his family’s ...

Brian D. Molitor is the founder and chief executive officer of Molitor International, an award-winning company that has ...

The letters’ edges are beginning to fray, and decades of time have cast a yellow tint on the ...

One of America’s most well-known corporations markets a rather unique philosophy when it comes to the ABCs of ...

“If you hunt something, how can you love it? How can you both love an animal and hunt ...

When Tolu Obikunle was an intern on Wall Street, she was frequently invited to go out for drinks ...

Do empires build trade routes or do trade routes build empires? Have the United States and Russia been ...

Jeffrey Harmon may be the most unlikely person to become a key player in the television industry. “We ...

Food: It is a central part of our lives. It is surprising how relatively little fantasy and science ...

Once upon a time, an understanding of the ancient past was the hallmark of any educated person in ...

“If you were anyone else, I would punch you in the face.” I stood there, holding my little ...

How do we know for sure that our children feel our love? We may wonder about this key ...

Fifth grade was the first time students were introduced to band in the school where I taught, and ...

On a day when the peak is shrouded by mist, passengers on the Mount Washington cog railway feel ...

He was born into poverty. He died penniless. Throughout Nikola Tesla’s life, he endured a number of severe ...

Not far off the coast of Southern California, Santa Catalina Island rises out of the Pacific, providing valuable ...

In the middle of the 19th century, the Southern plains sprouted prized cotton on vast and elegant plantations. ...

On a railroad car named “Mayflower,” headed to California in September 1919 for a presidential speaking tour, first ...

“I have got so much to do and life is so short, I am going to hustle,” 21-year-old ...

Among the Founding Fathers of the United States were inventors and scientists. More importantly, however, the Founders were ...

Something must have been very special about Southampton County, Virginia, as during the first quarter of the 19th ...

Acadia National Park offers unique scenery. Cliffs dissolve into rocky shores and fade into the ocean, pristine lakes ...

The tradition of presidential portraits is as old as the office of the American presidency itself. Beginning with ...

Opened to the public in 1924, Thomas Jefferson’s beloved home of Monticello in Albemarle County, Virginia, is one ...

Nate Brown’s deep appreciation for the Pacific Northwest stems from a four-day road trip across the Olympic Peninsula ...