It’s estimated that more than 11 million people were killed throughout the many proxy wars fought by the US and the Soviet Union. This includes the Algerian War (1954 to 1962), the Taiwan Strait Crisis (1958)…
According to medical historians, there are basically two ways that pandemics end. One is when death rates plummet. The other is when fear about the disease wanes. This has happened with most pandemics. It even…
The initials “OK” debuted in print 183 years ago, beginning the rise of one of the world’s most recognized words. Charles Gordon Greene, editor of The Boston Morning Post, likely authored the satirical piece…
* In the early 1950s, the BBC aired a “news” item about the spaghetti harvest in Switzerland. * In 1985, Sports Illustrated published a story by George Plimpton about a Mets pitching phenom named Sidd Finch…
