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2018 Year in Review: U.S. News

Top events for the nation in 2018 Logan Chamberlain Prev Next #MeToo #MeToo   The #MeToo movement remained a driving force in the cultural and political worlds. The preeminence of the…

The Journals of Lewis & Clark: June 25, 1804

by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark June 24, 1804June 26, 1804June 25, 1804 Monday June 25th a heavy fog Detaind us about an hour Set out passed the Isd on a course from the last…

The Golden Bird

The Golden Bird A certain king had a beautiful garden, and in the garden stood a tree which bore golden apples. These apples were always counted, and about the time when they began to grow…

Water in New York City

The Question: How much water (in gallons) does New York City consume in one day? The Answer: According to the New York City Department of Environmental…

2017 Year in Review - Science & Technology News

  Top events for the nation and the world in 2017 Prev Next Frog News Rare Frog Species Captured and Another Species Discovered On February 4, researchers located and captured specimens of…

John “Johnny Appleseed” Chapman

John Chapman was an itinerant agriculturalist and missionary who became known as "Johnny Appleseed," a folk hero of the 19th century American frontier. He showed up in the Ohio River Valley sometime…

Brewer's: Sodom

Apples of Sodom or mad apples. Strabo, Tacitus, and Josephus describe them as beautiful externally and filled with ashes. These “apples” are in reality gall-nuts produced by the insect…