History

The Most Valuable Pennies of All Time
The penny has been a part of the US currency for almost as long as the country has been independent. ...

What commercial was the most popular the year you were born?
Commercial jingles are created to be unforgettable, so it’s no wonder that people can be heard repeating certain phrases for ...

10 Amazing Ancient Technologies That Proved Our Ancestors Were Way Ahead of Its Time!
You have no idea what our ancestors did in the past if you live in an imaginary world where you ...

Rare photographs of Robert Scott’s ill-fated expedition to the South Pole, 1910-1913
The Terra Nova Expedition, also known as the British Antarctic Expedition, took place in Antarctica between 1910 and 1913. It ...

12 Facts about the R.M.S. ‘Lusitania’
A newspaper once stated that there was “never been a more daring experiment in marine architecture” then the RMS Lusitania. ...

Anna Jarvis, Mother’s Day founder, later fought to have the holiday abolished
Anna Jarvis, years after founding Mother’s Day was eating at Wanamaker’s Department Store in Philadelphia. They were serving a Mother’s ...

Old photographs of daredevil bikers racing in motorcycle chariots, circa 1920-1930.
Chariot racing was one of the most popular sports in the ancient Olympic Games, and it was extremely risky for ...

The Nuclear Disaster at Three Mile Island: 8 Facts
In 1979, the United States came the closest to a commercial nuclear catastrophe than it had ever ever before in ...

V-Mail: A WWII program that scanned messages onto microfilm from 1942 through 1945.
During World War II, letters were very important for soldiers and sailors who were stationed abroad. Every week, the average ...

These heartbreaking photos show the child workers of Maine’s sardine canneries, 1911
The American Child Protection Council hired photographer Lewis Hine in 1908 to report on and document the working conditions and ...