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Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" Speech: A Beacon of Hope and Equality
Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, delivered on August 28, 1963, during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, stands as...
A Glimpse of Home: The First-Ever Photograph of Earth Taken from the Moon
On August 23, 1966, the world received its first-ever photograph of Earth taken by a spacecraft from the moon's vicinity. The Lunar Orbiter I captured...
Pi(e) Day!
Happy Pi day! Pi day is the annual celebration of the mathematical constant π. Pi Day is observed on March 14th every year since the...
Rosa Parks: The First Lady of Civil Rights
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was born in Tuskegee, Alabama in 1913. Rosa and her younger brother were raised by their mother and maternal grandparents on...
The Purchase of Alaska
The U.S. used a treasury warrant to purchase Alaska from Russia in 1868. Governments use treasury warrants to authorize large payments. With a purchase...
The History of New Years
New Years is one of the most widely celebrated holidays globally due to most countries having adopted the Georgian calendar. Many people follow the...
The History of Christmas Cards
Watch to Learn more about the History of Christmas Cards The first Christmas card originated as a time-saving device, and a few decades after it...
The History of Father's Day
Like Mother’s Day, the first event specifically honoring fathers in the U.S. was held in a church in West Virginia. Held in 1908, the event...
The History of Mother's Day
In the 1850s, Ann Reeves Jarvis organized Mother’s Day work clubs to improve sanitary conditions for families in western Virginia (later West Virginia). Having lost...
