May 31, 2016
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- The Alaska Pipeline zigzags about 800 miles from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez, Alaska. (Photo by Luca Galuzzi via Wikimedia Commons)
On this date in 1977, the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System was completed.
Here are some things you may not know about it.
Oil had been used as fuel on the Arctic shore of Alaska for centuries...
May 27, 2016
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- A plume of smoke wafts from the ground in Centralia, Pennsylvania, site of an underground coal fire in 2007. (Photo by Mredden via Wikimedia Commons)
On this date in 1962, a mine fire under the town of Centralia, Pennsylvania, was discovered. It continues to burn to this day.
Here are a few things you may not...
May 26, 2016
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- Kaspar Hauser painting by Johann Friedrich Carl Kreul (Image via Wikimedia Commons)
On this date in 1828, an alleged feral child named Kaspar Hauser was discovered in Nuremberg, Germany.
Here are a few things you may not have known about Hauser and feral children.
Feral children are those that are isolated from...
May 25, 2016
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- The Gateway Arch in St. Louis. (Photo by Daniel Schwen via Wikimedia Commons)
On this date in 1968, the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, was dedicated.
Here are some things you may not have known about it.
The Gateway Arch is a monument to the western expansion of the United States. It sits in the center of...
May 24, 2016
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- A British Airways Concorde. (Photo by Eduard Marmet via Wikimedia Commons)
On this date in 1976, the first Concorde flight between London and Washington, D.C. took place.
Here are some things you may not have known about Concorde.
The idea of supersonic passenger flights began in the early 1950s, a few years after...