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The First Electric Christmas Lights Were On A Rotating Tree

This was the handiwork of one Edward Hibberd Johnson, an inventor and electrical evangelist.

At Christmas In Iceland, It’s All About The Books

In Iceland, book lovers take part in Jólabókaflóð , which means "the Christmas flood of books." And they're not exaggerating.

Nixon And Elvis, The Most Iconic Meeting In 70s History

No meeting has ever been bigger than the one that happened today in 1970, when the King of Rock and Roll met the President of the United States. We'll explain how it happened.

Sometimes Towns Just Have To Build Statues To Invasive Pests

Today marks one hundred years since the community of Enterprise, Alabama, put up a very special monument in the middle of town: a statue of a Greek woman holding a boll weevil, an invasive pest that had ruined the local cotton crop. Wait, what?