Every Nobel Prize Without Its Laureate
The Nobel ceremony has a script. The winners are announced in October, fly to Stockholm or Oslo in early December, are presented their medals by the king on the 10th, give a speech, attend... Read More →
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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
The leftmost column of names on the Declaration of Independence belongs to Georgia. New Hampshire is over on the right, John Hancock sits alone in the middle underneath the text in no column at... Read More →
Every US President
The first American presidency started late because of the weather. The Confederation Congress had scheduled the inauguration for the first Wednesday in March 1789, and then, in the National Archives’ own account, “the early... Read More →
Every One of the 13 Original Colonies
One hundred and twenty-six years separate the first of these colonies from the last. Virginia’s settlers landed in 1607; Georgia’s did not arrive until 1733. The gap shows. When the First Continental Congress met... 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 →
Every Greek God of War: All 19 Divine Beings of Battle in Greek Mythology
Most people know Ares. The brooding Olympian with the spear and the bad reputation - disliked by his own parents, repeatedly humiliated in battle, and somehow still managing to be one of the most... Read More →
Every Civilization That Built Pyramids
Say “pyramid” and most people picture exactly one place: Egypt. Maybe they conjure the Great Pyramid of Giza, rising from the desert like a limestone mountain someone forgot to erode. It’s an understandable reflex.... Read More →
Every Nuclear Weapon That Has Been Lost and Never Recovered
On March 10, 1956, a B-47 Stratojet left MacDill Air Force Base in Florida and headed east across the Atlantic, bound nonstop for an overseas base. Somewhere over the Mediterranean it simply failed to... Read More →
