Unbeknownst to many people, the 21st-century wireless communication technology Bluetooth derived its name from a 10th-century Viking king called Harald Bluetooth. Harald Bluetooth Gormsson, also known as Harald Blåtand Gormsen,...
The Great Chicago Fire was one of the terrible disasters to ever hit the United States. The conflagration, which began on October 8 1871, lasted for over 40 hours. It...
Having grown tired of over three centuries of the worst form of oppression, social hierarchy and brutal enslavement, black African slaves in the prosperous French colony of Saint-Domingue began a...
On April 22, 1721 a ship from the Caribbean arrived in Boston carrying a sailor with smallpox. Though he was quarantined, it didn’t prevent a smallpox outbreak from ravaging the...
On August 20th, 1683, German-born Francis Daniel Pastorius arrived in Pennsylvania from Germany to help set up Germantown, the first permanent German-American settlement, which eventually became a haven for other...