The long history of long pants
Trousers, pants, baji; whatever you happen to call long leg-wraps, you've probably worn a pair or two. Nowadays trousers are common across the world for casual…
The first baseball team to wear numbers was the New York Yankees, in 1929. The numbers represented their batting order.4 Roger Bannister ran a 3:59:4-minute mile, the first under four minutes, in…
The very first poll to determine a college football national champion was conducted in 1869. Princeton won the championship with a 1-1 record. At that time, the playing field was 120 yards long and…
NASCAR's biggest race of the year is the Daytona 500, and it's also the first race of the year. Imagine having the Super Bowl at the beginning of the football season instead of at the end.Racing…
Eleven historic sites in danger of being lost forever In a report released in late May 2003, the National Trust for Historic Preservation (www.nationaltrust.org ) listed 11 historic sites across…
Senate Years of Service: 1797-1798; 1823-1825Party: Democratic RepublicanJACKSON, Andrew, a Representative and a Senator from Tennessee and 7th President of the United States; born on March 15…
Travel+Leisure has compiled a list of the world's best cities, as voted by users worldwide. Florence and Rome are in the "Hall of Fame" for making the list ten years in a row. Rankings…
