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This month in 1927, Americans were fawning over an animal headed to the National Zoo in Washington: a presidential hippo named Billy.
Today in 1857, the birthday of Williamina Fleming, a big name in the world of astronomy but one who had a pretty low-profile start.
There may be no more important part of road safety than the bright red stop sign, though in the early days, they weren’t red.
Today in 1940, Life Magazine published a series of photos of a little boy in Liberty County, Georgia - photos that, two decades later, would inspire one of the most famous picture books ever published.
It's United Nations Global Road Safety Week, so here's the story of a driver in Ireland who seemed to be breaking every traffic law on the books... until the authorities figured out there was something more to their story.
Commencement season is here, which means a lot of people hearing a composition known as “Pomp and Circumstance.” Though that piece of music was not written with graduation in mind.
It’s World Donkey Day, so we're visiting an Arizona ghost town that's visited by a nearby colony of wild donkeys.
A voice activated speaker needs a voice. Except that researchers at the University of Maryland are developing a way to activate the voice activated speaker without a voice.
Thanks to loads of security measures, no one has ever robbed the Bank of England. But if you ask whether anyone’s broken into the bank's famous gold vaults, the answer is a little more complicated.
Many people like to get together from time to time for adult beverages. Chimpanzees apparently also gather to imbibe and share alcohol.
