Deaths and devastating injuries. A litany of labor violations. Drivers forced to urinate in their vans. Here is how Amazon’s gigantic, decentralized, next-day delivery network brought chaos, exploitation, and danger to communities across America.
This weekend marks the 70th anniversary of little-known World War II milestone. In September 1940, almost nobody knew about the horrors happening inside Auschwitz. A Polish army captain named Witold Pilecki got inside the camp and told the world. His reward? Anonymity and eventual execution.
1. In 2007, Scotland spent £125,000 devising a new national slogan. The winning entry was: ‘Welcome to Scotland.’
English majors: those students who can recite Shakespeare by heart and work on their future novels. Perhaps. These are some of the qualities I think define what it means to be an English major.
While unsolved mysteries tend to remain that way, these conundrums seem poised to beat the odds—possibly within the next ten years.
A kangaroo keeps escaping his enclosure at the zoo. In an effort to keep him inside at night, the zookeepers construct a 10-foot fence around his habitat. The next morning, they find...
Chickenhare by Chris Grine was published by Scholastic's Graphix imprint in 2013. It was originally published, in black and wh...
A super fun activity that will be a crowd-pleaser for your young men and young women! AN ESCAPE ROOM! Solve clues, figure out what's next to finally open the treasure! A great test of your
More Saga in any form is a good thing in our books, and the upcoming second volume of Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples’ seminal comic series, due out next week, is no exception. To celebrate, we’ve got an exclusive look at some of the beautiful art created for the new collection, by some of the best artists in…
A short biography of Harriet Tubman and a poster featuring a quotation by the famous Underground Railroad conductor.
Sometimes you just need to take a vacation, even if it's only in your head. This curated list of escapist reads is here to help.
Learn to stay calm in a rip current and escape so your day at the beach doesn’t end in tragedy.
Lessons on being a man from Beowulf the dragon slayer.
Use the The Pharisee and the Tax Collector True or False as a fun activity for your next children's sermon.
Dmitri (Dmitry) of Uglich, known also as Tsarevich Dmitri or Dmitri Ivanovich, was the youngest son of the first Tsar of All the Russias, Ivan IV Vasilyevich, more commonly known as Ivan Grozny or Ivan the Terrible. There is not much that can be said about the life of Dmitri of Uglich, as he died at the extremely young age of eight.
A Texan was on a flight and began bragging about the property that he owned. “How much property do you own?” asked the man sitting next to him. “Forty acres,” answered the...
101 interesting facts about life you never imagined but always know.These are amazing facts to know which prove life is not so boring.Get best one liner quotes on life which are intriguing.
If you’d like to read a true crime story in less than an hour, you’ll be interested in the case of Frank Freshwaters, who escaped from prison and lived for 56 years under a different identity. He lived in different states, fathered children, and eventually became the subject of “the longest capture in the history of the U.S. Marshals.” Frank Freshwaters was a baby-faced 21-year-old newlywed — with no criminal record and a job in the booming rubber industry ...
Let me offer you a transformational idea. It has been common currency in social psychology for 40 years, where some consider it to be the foundation of the discipline. In business, it can transform your perception of a situation and dissolve intractable problems. Yet it is hardly known there. Let me start with [...]
View the comic strip for Sunny Street by cartoonist Max G and Sandy B created July 01, 2013 available on GoComics.com
Quicksand is not nearly as dangerous as Hollywood makes it out to be. Use these simple steps to get out safe and sound.
Joseph Winters was important to the safety of people who live in cities. On May 7, 1878, the fire escape ladder was patented by Joseph Winters. Joseph Winters invented a wagon-mounted fire escape ladder for the city of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. Joseph Winters was born in 1816 in Virginia to an African-American brick maker and a Shawnee ...
“Say something happy.” “Well, Dad’s dead.” “That’s close enough.”
How a letter written in 1855 gave Kyra Gaunt a whole new perspective on slavery.
If locked in a trunk, always try to be positioned in a way that allows access to escape tools. Then employ one of these methods to get yourself out.
