History

Why Two Thousand Years of Human Genius Still Can’t Fix February

The Stubborn Math at the Heart of It All Every four years, February gets one extra day and millions of...

What the Lincoln Memorial Has Been Hiding for Over a Century

A Greek Temple on American Soil The Lincoln Memorial doesn’t look like anything else built in America in the early...

The Stolen Stone and Other Secrets Hiding Inside the Washington Monument

Five Years as the World’s Tallest The Washington Monument took 36 years to build. Thirty-six. By the time workers set...

The Real History of April Fools Is Stranger Than Any Prank

Nobody Knows Why It Falls on April 1 For a holiday built on deception, it’s fitting that its own origins...

The Real Reason Babylon Fell When It Did

The City That Seemed Untouchable At its height, Babylon was the largest city on earth. Sitting along the Euphrates River...