Forty-eight times between 1777 and 1910, an American state moved its capital. The count is unsettling because most people assume capitals were settled fixtures, chosen at statehood and inherited from the territorial period, but... Read More →
Pokemon Sun and Moon arrived in November 2016 with no Gym in them anywhere. No badges, no row of buildings each holding a puzzle and a specialist and a handshake, nothing resembling the circuit... Read More →
Pokemon X and Y went on sale in Japan, Europe and the Americas on the same day, October 12, 2013, the first time the series had launched everywhere at once. Nintendo counted more than... Read More →
In 1674, the Department of Magical Games and Sports sat down with a problem. Their most popular sport had become too popular. There were too many quidditch teams, too many matches, and far too... Read More →
The catafalque on which most of these caskets rested was hammered together in five days in April 1865, out of rough pine boards covered in black cloth, to support the body of Abraham Lincoln.... Read More →
Black and White reached Japan in September 2010 carrying 156 Pokemon nobody had ever seen and not one that anybody had. Junichi Masuda explained the decision to Nintendo Power the following March: he had... Read More →
No two trainers in the Sinnoh League use two of the same species of Pokemon as each other. Single overlaps happen – Champion Cynthia and Gardenia both keep a Roserade – but a matching... Read More →
Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire reached Japan on November 21, 2002 with a wall built into them. The Game Boy Advance used a different link connector from the Game Boy and Game Boy Color, so... Read More →
Johto’s Gym Leaders deal in Flying, Bug, Normal, Ghost, Fighting, Steel, Ice and Dragon. Kanto’s eight Gym Leaders had already claimed Rock, Water, Electric, Grass, Poison, Psychic, Fire and Ground, which left exactly seven... Read More →
World War II killed somewhere between 70 and 85 million people - roughly 3 percent of the entire human population alive in 1940. That number is so large it becomes abstract until you consider... Read More →
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