On this date (Jan 28) in the year 1754, the word serendipity was first coined. In a letter to Horace Mann, Horace Walpole said that he formed the word based on the Persian fairy tale The Three Princes of Serendip,
On this date (Jan 24)…
On this date (Jan 24) in 1972, Shoichi Yokoi was discovered in the jungles of Guam. He was a Japanese soldier who had been hiding in a cave since 1944, believing that World War II was still going strong. Yokoi
On this date – Special Edition – Reflections on MLK Day
On this date (Jan 17, 2011) most of America celebrates the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It’s sad that I still have to say “most of America” instead of saying “ALL of America”, but we do live in
On this date (Jan 10)…
On this date (Jan 10) in 1776, Thomas Paine published Common Sense. On the surface, this work was a plain-spoken argument for independence from England, but a deeper read shows it to be a treatise about society in general. In
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On this date (Jan 5) in 1972, President Nixon gave the official go-ahead for the development of NASA’s space shuttle program. Nixon and the Rocket Scientists (I mean the actual president and NASA, not the early 60s girl group) had