Renowned writer George Orwell has died, at 46, after a three-year battle with tuberculosis. Until recently, news had suggested he was improving. On Friday...
A disaster that sounded absurd- until it happened
On this day in 1919, Boston experienced one of the strangest and deadliest industrial disasters in modern...
Eighty-three years ago today, 14 January 1943, President Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first sitting US president to fly overseas.
Departing Miami, Florida aboard...
When Henry Ford imagined a plant-based future
On this day in 1942, Henry Ford patented a plastic car body made largely from plant-based materials- a...
