Fighting to Save Hetch Hetchy-Again When Congress passed the Raker Act in 1913, granting San Francisco the right to flood the Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park to bring water and hydroelectric power to a city devastated by the earthquake and fires...
Going on five years since September 11, 2001, and many, if not most, Americans seem very uncertain about what it means that we are at war-or whether we really are at war. There is a nearly unanimous agreement that there are "terrorists" out there,...
Question 1 of 10: England was struck by famine in 1316 after farms were devastated by...?Crop diseaseA drought Torrential rain Civil warQuestion 2 of 10:The infamously incompetent King Edward II of England was in 1327 imprisoned and put to death by whom?The King of ScotlandA...
A rib bone supposedly found at the site where French heroine Joan of Arc was burned at the stake is actually that of an Egyptian mummy, according to researchers who used high-tech science to expose the fake.The bone, a piece of cloth and a cat...
