From the colonial period to the end of the US Civil War, the rattlesnake sssssssymbolized everything from evil to unity and power.

More than two centuries after the invention of ballooning, Steve Fossett became the first person to solo circumnavigate the world in a balloon.

Why did Benjamin Franklin become an American patriot when he was such a loyal son of the Crown for so long?

Read a 2001 Keynote Address from comedian and scholar Jonathan Miller from the Social Research conference on Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815).

First of all, why the name "turkey?"