Every McDonald's Location That Existed Before Ray Kroc
On April 14, 1955, Ray Kroc spent the night before his grand opening checking the temperature on his deep fryers in Des Plaines, Illinois. He was 52 years old and had just bet his... Read More →
Category: History
Every Item on the Original McDonald's Bar-B-Q Menu
On May 15, 1940, two brothers from Manchester, New Hampshire opened a drive-in restaurant at the corner of 14th and E streets in San Bernardino, California. They served slow-cooked barbecue from a pit stocked... Read More →
Every U.S. State Capital That Has Been Moved
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 →
Every Person Lain in State or Honor in the Capitol Rotunda
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 →
Every Country That Participated in World War II
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 →
Every Roman Emperor Who Was Assassinated (27 BC to 476 AD)
In January of 41 AD, a Praetorian tribune named Cassius Chaerea stepped into a covered passageway beneath the Palatine Hill in Rome and stabbed the emperor Caligula to death. He had many reasons, most... Read More →
Every Founding Father Who Signed the Declaration of Independence
On August 2, 1776, fifty-six men gathered in Philadelphia and signed what amounted to a death warrant - their own. By putting their names on the Declaration of Independence, they were committing treason against... Read More →
Every US President
The office of the American presidency was invented on the fly. In 1787, the founders sat in Philadelphia arguing about whether the executive should be a single person or a committee of three. They... Read More →
Every One of the 13 Original Colonies
In the summer of 1776, thirteen scrappy strips of coastline declared war on the most powerful empire on earth. The British had more ships, more soldiers, more money, and more experience. What the colonies... Read More →
All 28 Titans in Greek Mythology
The number everyone quotes is twelve. Twelve Titans, twelve original gods, neat and clean. It is the kind of satisfying round number that mythology teachers write on whiteboards and tourists read on plaques at... Read More →
