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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. was a doctor who became very interested in the use of ether to anesthetize patients who were having procedures done.

One afternoon a young lady came home with a new dog that she just adored. She fed him, washed him, and played with him every day.

French writer Alexis de Tocqueville visited the United States in 1831. After his visit, he wrote…

Years ago, the Holiday Inn hotel chain was looking for 500 new people to fill positions in a large new hotel.

On July 14, 1771, Samuel Hearne led a party from the Hudson’s Bay Company toward the Coppermine River in the Northwestern Territories of Canada.

In 1818, little 9-year-old Louis was sitting in his father’s workshop outside of Paris, France. His dad was a harness maker, and Louis loved watching his father work.

In the early 1990s, coalition troops of Operation Desert Storm wowed the world with their 100-hour ground assault against Saddam Hussein’s troops who had invaded Kuwait.

A young boy had a problem of being consistently late for dinner. One day, his parents warned him to be on time or else he would get only bread and water for dinner. This time, though, the boy arrived later than ever and found his parents already sitting at the table…

United States Senator Mark Hatfield tells the story of touring Calcutta, India with Mother Teresa. On their tour, she took him to visit the so-called “House of the Dying…

In 1903, the Russian Czar noticed a sentry posted in a very odd place on the grounds in the Kremlin.