Tax day quotes, cartoons, history and links, including the 1967 cartoon version of The Beatles "Taxman"
A Look Back at Franklin, America's Lost State.
How computational power—or its absence—shaped World War naval battles.
Abraham Lincoln was shot on April 14, 1865 and died the morning of the 15th - here's history, contemporaneous articles and illustrations, and an eyewitness report from 1956.
Stopping the spread of disease during and after the American Revolution - fumigating people with smoke was thought to neutralize smallpox: “a judicious and proper application of fire and smoke is the true means appropriated for the destruction and utter extinction of the most malignant sources of disease.”
A History of Pizza - Samuel Morse, inventor of the telegraph, described pizza in 1831 - "it altogether looks like a piece of bread that has been taken reeking out of the sewer’.
And in the animals are just like humans category, Elephants Console One Another By Genital Touching and Sympathetic Noises.
