For the Record

Philadelphia's Billy Carter, a first-class passenger of the "Titanic," brought along his 35-horsepower Renault motorcar, packe...

Sixteenth-century Dutch humanist Erasmus offered this advice for blowing the nose: "to blow your nose on your hat or clothing is rustic...

One of the world's best known tunes is Britain's anthem "God Save the Queen." That's because the same melody is used f...

Under ideal conditions, a flea might live for as long as a year. But the typical flea survives for only two or three months. And without a r...

While running for his first political office in 1922, Harry Truman went through Ku Klux Klan initiation rites to help his chances of winning...

Not everyone agrees on how an insect sounds. English speakers describe the sound a bee makes as bzzz. But the Japanese say it bunbun, and Ge...

Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin, got his start, forging nails during the Revolutionary War. After the war, however, England flooded ...