Why do we have daylight saving time?
According to Michael Downing, author of Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of Daylight Saving Time, the first daylight saving time policy began in Germany in 1916, hoping to save energy…
According to Michael Downing, author of Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of Daylight Saving Time, the first daylight saving time policy began in Germany in 1916, hoping to save energy…
The origins of Valentine’s Day are shrouded in mystery. What is known is that February has historically been celebrated as a month of romance and that it contains traces of…
Groundhog day has its origins in an ancient Celtic festival called Imbolc, which was held on each year on February 1st.
The inaugural game was not officially known as the Super Bowl. In a 1966 letter to then-NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle, AFL founder and Kansas City Chiefs owner, Lamar Hunt, wrote…
Fireworks (aka firecrackers) were invented in China in the seventh century. Historically, many cultures thought fireworks could scare off evil spirits. According to Chinese legend, a monster called the Nian…
The term “white elephant” in “white elephant gift exchange” probably came from the tradition of the King of Siam (present-day Thailand) giving rare albino (white) elephants to anyone that displeased…
No one knows for sure why Friday the 13th is considered unlucky but the most widely accepted explanation is based on Christianity.
According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, around 300,000 of the roughly 16 million American World War II veterans are still alive as of February, 2021. About 370 World…
The Kurds are an ethnic group of about 30 million people native to a stateless region that straddles the borders of northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, northern Syria, western Armenia, and…
When Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union (USSR), some Soviets referred to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (UkSSR) as “the Ukraine.” However, since the collapse of the USSR, Ukraine…