General Knowledge

How much do you know about trash? If you are anything like us, the answer is… not very much. You...

Capitalism is at the core of our society; businesses and corporations produce consumer goods. This system breeds innovation. However, with...

If you find yourself the most important person in your community, how will you let other people know you are...

There are literally thousands of languages spoken all over the world today—and thousands more long-dead languages that were spoken by...

In October 1929, the American stock market crashed. After riding high for much of the 1920s, Wall Street took a...

The period from the late 17th century to the close of the Napoleonic Wars is called the Enlightenment—the Age of...

Any discussion about presidential illnesses inevitably involves America’s favorite fatal footnote. On the 48-degree morning of March 4, 1841, William...

Book dedications have existed since antiquity. For a long time, they were mostly written to flatter patrons who helped support...

Like any historical tragedy, the Holocaust can only be viewed in hindsight, and its gruesome totality—11 million dead, six million...

The pages of horror novels are filled with eerie and gory descriptions of ghosts and monsters. But while this spookiness...