Tag: History

Our interactions with our closest relatives in the animal kingdom, the chimpanzees, have rarely been entirely honorable. We dress them ...

When William Huggins became the first human to examine the spectrum of a star in 1864, he could little have ...

Beholding a bar of metal, it seems an object almost primal in its simplicity.  Solid, reliable, the stuff of which ...

Forty-eight years ago, on September 20, 1973, tennis champion Billie Jean King (age 29 then) defeated self-proclaimed male chauvinist Bobby ...