In ancient times, your Tupperware would have been a symbol of wealth and power, Gary Cross and Robert N. Proctor, authors of ‘Packaged Pleasures: How Technology and Marketing Revolutionized Desire’, explain, as they elaborate on the evolution of the ways humankind has preserved food.
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Daily Quiz for November 7, 2016
In 1488, Explorer Bartolomeu Dias discovered this.
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Daily Quiz for November 6, 2016
She was known as the Ghost in the White House.
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Daily Quiz for November 5, 2016
American mathematician and electrical engineer Claude Shannon developed the theoretical foundation for digital communication. He also created several silly inventions. This is NOT one of them.
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Daily Quiz for November 4, 2016
In 1967, renowned pianist Byron Janis discovered two previously unknown waltzes by this composer.
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Well Armed
At the West Point Foundry, an ordnance genius engineered devastating cannons At the beginning […]
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Daily Quiz for November 3, 2016
The Kay Livingstone Award is presented in this country.
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Audio: Thomas Paine’s Egalitarian Ideas Explained
Sean Wilentz explains the ideas of Thomas Paine. Wilentz is a professor of American History at Princeton University and author of ‘The Politicians and the Egalitarians.’
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Daily Quiz for November 2, 2016
Named for Major General George Crook, Army outpost, Fort Crook, added a flying field and was renamed this Air Force Base in 1948.
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The Battle That Never Was
In February 1942, days after a Japanese submarine shelled the California coast, anti-aircraft gunners […]