In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. In old England, when customers became unruly, the bartender would yell at them to mind their own "pints and quarts" and settle down. From that, we got the abbreviated ...Read More

Henry Cavendish, one of the great scientists of the 1700s, was painfully shy and could barely speak to one person -- never to two. He was so timid in the presence of women that he communicated with his female servants by ...Read More

Sir Isaac NewtonAccording to various tales passed down over the years, none other than Sir Isaac Newton was experimenting with light in a darkened room and one of his most prized cats (reportedly named "Spithead") kept ...Read More

As Count von Zeppelin had died in 1917, Dr. Hugo Eckener, a man who had long before envisioned dirigibles as vessels of peace rather than warfare, took command of the Zeppelin business. With the Treaty of Versailles having...Read More

Wolf packs could be found in all the forests of Europe, and in 1420 and 1438, wolves roamed the streets of Paris.

Martha Washington is the only woman whose portrait has appeared on a U.S. currency note. It appeared on the face of the $1 Silver Certificate of 1886 and 1891, and the back of the $1 Silver Certificate of 1896.