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Space Services is a Houston-based aerospace company responsible for the first private launch into outer space, and the first post cremation ...

Bobby "Boris" Pickett , whose Boris Karloff impression propelled his Halloween anthem Monster Mash to the top of the charts in 19...

Warren Avis died two days ago at the age of 92. Avis was born in 1915 in Bay City, Mich., where his father was in the lumber business. He in...

CATV is now the abbreviation for Cable Television. Originally it meant Community Antenna Television, and it started just under 60 years ago....

In the early 1900s, Morris Markin, a Russian-born clothier in Chicago became the owner of an auto body maker when its owner defaulted on a l...

Bess Myerson (born 1924) was the first (and, so far, only) Jewish Miss America. She went on to become a popular television personality, a pu...

Rising seas, caused by global warming, have for the first time washed an inhabited island off the face of the Earth. The obliteration of Loh...

The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HCUA) was an investigative committee of the US House of Representatives, often called HUAC, H...

At one time, Cuba was the largest importer of American cars. That ended in 1960, when the Eisenhower administration imposed a ban on US expo...

I'm away on a business trip. Postings will resume on Wednesday 4/18.

A radio program from 1949 to 1956 and a TV show from 1952 to 1959, and again from 1967 to 1970, Dragnet was the first major realistic crime...

Traditionally, Carl Benz (of Mercedes Benz) is credited with inventing the car. He built a three-wheeled car in 1885 and sold his first one ...

Academic honorary society Phi Beta Kappa was founded as a social club at the College of William and Mary in Virginia in 1776. It later evolv...

Two-time Oscar-winner Elizabeth Taylor has been married eight times, to seven husbands: Conrad "Nicky" Hilton (1950 - 1951, divorc...

The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress is now its fifth decade of operational service. The newest planes were made 45 years ago, and are older than ...

We'll be away for a bit of relaxation and recharging. New posts will resume on 4/9 (unless I discover something really important before ...

Zion's Co-operative Mercantile Institution or ZCMI was founded in 1868 and may have been the first department store in the United States...

In 1805 the British House of Commons passed a bill that made it unlawful for any British subject to capture and transport slaves, but the me...

Nanjing Automobile Group unveiled its made-in-China MG sports cars and sedans Tuesday, the first step in its plans to use the iconic British...