Benjamin Franklin left $2,000 to Boston and Philadelphia to help young people in those cities. He stipulated in his will that cities could not draw the balance for 200 years. In 1990, it was worth $6.
The 13 of april 1932, witness by 2,000 people, the first ladies weightlifting contest takes place in England. Winer is I. Russell at 5ft7 and 126 pounds lifting 369.5 pounds.
12 days after D-Day, my father—Easy Company's Pat Christenson from Band of Brothers—sent this V-mail home: “I’m still able to write.” Decades later, he drew what he couldn't tell them.
This is Bajrang , a dominant tiger who ruled the Tadoba reserve (India) for over half a decade before finally getting killed by Little Claypot (Chota Matka) last year
In the 1640's the Dutch inhabitants of New Amsterdam built a 12 foot wall. 1664 the British ignored the wall and took New Amsterdam by sea. It's now called New York. They took down the wall and built
A laser dance show where the performers’ movements create these insane glowing visuals using light, lasers, and illuminated suits. [@royal.lasers on Instagram]
Serbia is on fire right now. Dozens of fires ignited across the whole country in the last 3 days, and they have burned over a thousand acres of land and forest. The fires are now spreading to resident
An 18-year-old has broken the Guinness World Record to become the youngest college professor ever. Nathan Thomas started college at 10 and earned both his bachelor's and master's degrees by 18
Lucy, a 3.2-million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis skeleton discovered in Ethiopia in 1974, providing crucial physical evidence for bipedalism in human evolution [199x300]
In late July 1945, 12 American airmen were downed while attacking the Japanese battleship "Haruna". They were captured and imprisoned in a nearby Hiroshima, but died when the city was destroyed on Aug