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On this day in 1931, President Herbert Hoover officially dedicates New York City's Empire State Building, pressing a button from the White House that turns on the building's lights.

While Geppetto had no way of knowing what his selfishness would cost at the time, he inadvertently made so many lives so much worse ...

In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, President Obama was asked to reconcile his administration's crackdown on medical marijuana with his promises of tolerance and noninterference in this area

On this day in 1916, on Easter Monday in Dublin, the Irish Republican Brotherhood, a secret organization of Irish nationalists led by Patrick Pearse, launches the so-called Easter Rebellion, an arm

Thomas Edison's Black Maria was the first film production studio in the world.

A look back at the late 1960s reminds us why Earth Day started in the first place.

My mom’s family likes to save things.

My mom’s family likes to save things.

With the world anxiously watching, Apollo 13, a U.S. lunar spacecraft that suffered a severe malfunction on its journey to the moon, safely returns to Earth.

Painter Hillary White takes classic works of art and throws in familiar characters like Boba Fett, xenomorphs, and Skeletor.