On October 26, 1993, the "King of Pop," Michael Jackson, filed United States Patent #5,255,452: Method and Means for Creating Anti-Gravity Illusion. The patent is for the shoes used to perform Jackson's iconic anti-gravity illusion seen on his 1988 music video "Smooth Criminal." Jackson wanted to solidify his "patented...
As the American Civil War was ending, U.S. Secretary of State wrote this letter in March of 1865 to the U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain Charles Francis Adams. Adams was a writer, politician, son of President John Quincy Adams, and grandson and biographer of President John Adams. Charles Francis Adams had also served...
After graduating from Duke Law School, Richard Milhous Nixon applied to be a special agent in the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on April 23, 1937. He received an initial interview with the FBI, but then never heard a response back on his application. Nixon returned home to California and began...
Fala was president Franklin D. Roosevelt's Scottish Terrier. FDR was given to FDR by a cousin. Fala was one of the most famous presidential pets and the media often ran stories about the dog. Fala lived seven years after FDR passed away and...
Before 1915, virtually all soda bottles looked the same. Then, in 1915, the Coca-Cola Company launched a competition among glass makers to see who could design the best new Coke bottle. The competition was launched...