November 11 is well-known as Veterans Day, and because Congress ultimately saw the wisdom of keeping it from being a floating holiday, celebrating it on 11-11 instead of the second […]
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Napoleon Bonaparte was actually the man behind the idea of improving the way that food could be preserved and stored. Bonaparte saw that a major issue with his soldiers was getting fresh food to them, and he offered a financial award for anyone who developed a preservation method that permitted the military to travel with food for the troops.
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One might expect that the fellow who invented the bread-slicer would be a baker, but inventor Otto Frederick Rohwedder (1880-1960) was a jeweler.
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Detroit is an American city that deserves far more respect than it’s getting right now.
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The tradition of carving faces into vegetables or fruits dates to the Celts. Many centuries ago as the summer harvest came to an end, the Celtic people prepared for the
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Mischief-making became part of Hallow’s Eve (October 30) in the late 1800s. Then, as now, young people looked for ways to pull pranks. The ideas young people came up with
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