Tsutomu Yamaguchi, a Japanese man, is the only known person to have survived both the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and of ...

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Before it was set in November, the Thanksgiving holiday bounced across calendars for years, and was almost entirely forgotten ...

Do you know the name Margaret Abbott? Do you know she's the first woman to win an individual gold medal in the Olympics, and the first-ever woman to a gold medal in golf? It happened in 1900, in Paris ...

Every year, Americans in snowy states wait with bated breath to see whether Punxsutawney Phil will spot his shadow. And every year, we take Phil’s weather forecast – six more weeks of winter, or an ...