Amelia Bloomer was a prominent advocate of women's rights in the 19th century. She invented bloomers to replace the skirt hoop, in an effort to free women from much of their cumbersome apparel. She later used her newspaper, The Lily, to...

"Imagine a baseball dropped from an airplane flying at 30,000 feet; imagine that baseball reaching speeds of 120 MPH as it falls to the ground; and imagine you're under it!" How does hail form? How big can it get? Read more here about...

Describes plants and animals that lived during the Ordovician Period, where it falls in the geologic time scale, tectonic activity happening then, the climate and environment, and extinction events.

Find out more about Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, who was the Queen's favourite during her declining years. His excessive popularity and his blatant attempts to misuse royal patronage brought an inevitable fall from grace. A brief but...

Contains interesting facts and key dates of the major Cold War events from 1968 - 1991.

A brief description of how labor unions emerged from the Industrial Revolution.