Sherlock Holmes first appeared in print in “Study in Scarlet” by Arthur Conan Doyle on this day in 1887. Did you know that: • Minoru Yamasaki, the architect who designed the World Trade Center, was born on this day in 1912• The first drive-up gasoline station opened on this day in 1913• EW Brundin and […]
Mark Twain was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer born on this day in 1835. Did you know that: • Henri Ernest Baillon, a French botanist who wrote “The History of Plants”, was born on this day in 1827• John Mason patented the screw neck bottle called the Mason Jar on this day […]
Chadwick Boseman was an American actor and playwright born on this day in 1976. Did you know that: • Sir James Jay invented invisible ink on this day in 1775• Thomas Edison demonstrated his hand-cranked phonograph for the first time on this day in 1877• The first patent for the invention of the traffic lights […]
The Times of London was printed by automatic, steam-powered presses for the first time on this day in 1814. Did you know that: • John Wesley Hyatt, the inventor of celluloid, was born on this day in 1837• America’s first auto race was held in Chicago on this day in 1895• Mary Elizabeth Winstead is […]
The first tracings of dinosaurs in Missouri were found in the 1940s on the Chronister family’s property when they were digging a well. Nearly 60 years later, another set of fossils from the same species were uncovered about 50 feet away. After comparing and matching the tail vertebrates of these discoveries, paleontologists described them as […]
BOSTON: One of the first coins minted in Colonial New England, which was recently found among other coins in a candy tin, has sold at auction for more than $350,000 (AED 1.2m), more than it was expected to get, the auctioneer said. The one shilling silver coin made in Boston in 1652 — considered the […]
Bruce Lee, born Lee Jun-fan, was a Hong Kong American actor, director, and martial artist born on this day in 1940. Did you know that: • Mildred Lord was granted a patent for a washing machine on this day in 1894• “The Mark of Zorro” – first American superhero film – directed by Fred Niblo […]
“Alice in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll was published in America on this day in 1865. Did you know that: • The first exotic animal (lion) was exhibited in Boston on this day in 1716• Russell Penniman received a patent for a transparent photographic film on this day in 1895• English archaeologist Howard Carter opened Tutankhamun’s […]
Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist born on this day in 1835. Did you know that: • John B. Meyenberg patented evaporated milk on this day in 1884• Joseph Wood Krutch was an American writer, critic, and naturalist born on this day in 1893• Robert S. Ledley was granted a patent for “diagnostic […]
Clyde Coleman patented the automobile electric starter on this day in 1903. Did you know that: • English naturalist Charles Darwin published “On the Origin of Species” on this day in 1859• A patent was granted to Joseph Glidden for barbed wire fencing on this day in 1874• Dale Carnegie was an American writer and […]
Some shoot out of the soft rock like reptiles bathing in the sun. Others are mysterious depressions resembling an ancient board game played all over the world. And a few are straight-up puzzling. On Qatar’s northeastern coast, among the sand dunes of the barren desert, lies Al Jassasiya, the Gulf country’s largest and most important […]
