Think Valentine's Day started with a kind priest secretly marrying young lovers? Think again. The real Saint Valentine—actually several men by that name—died as...
George Washington's first inauguration was supposed to happen on March 4, 1789—but Congress couldn't count the votes in time. When the ceremony finally took...
In 1970, a Smithsonian scientist warned that 80% of all animal species would vanish by 1995. A Stanford professor predicted hundreds of millions would...
