This History of the Bicycle

The First World War wasn’t just fought on the fields of France and Belgium. There were lesser battles fought on the homefronts of the nations which were fighting.  In the United Kingdom and other Comm...

29 Apr 202413min

Adolf Hitler single-handedly started the Second World War in Europe.  While the Allies were desperately trying to end the Third Reich and Hitler personally, they weren’t the only ones trying to bring ...

28 Apr 202413min

By the early 19th century, the United States and Great Britain had already fought two wars with each other.  Those two wars were not enough to resolve all of the territorial and border disputes betwee...

27 Apr 202414min

In 1854 an unusually severe outbreak of cholera occurred in London.  While cholera was not an uncommon disease, physicians at the time weren’t sure what caused it.  This time, one doctor took a comple...

26 Apr 202412min

In 259 BC, a boy named Ying Zheng was born in the state of Qin in modern-day China.  He was born into the royal family of the kingdom and ascended to the throne at the age of 13.  For most people, bec...

25 Apr 202414min

In the 19th century, New York City was one of the fastest-growing cities in the world.  However, it was still a very young city, and as such, the city’s leaders were able to take a step back and plan ...

24 Apr 202414min

Almost as soon as Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in 1947, people began thinking of ways to transport passengers at supersonic speeds.  However, the challenges in creating a passenger aircraft th...

23 Apr 202412min

Today in Western Europe, there is a line that divides speakers of Germanic languages and speakers of Romance languages. While that line has shifted over time, its existence can be traced back to a bat...

22 Apr 202412min