Did you know that TWA Flight 800, the commercial airliner that tragically crashed last summer off Long Island, was accidentally shot down by a U.S. Navy missile? OK, this was just a rumor that was ...

Beginning in Havana in 1865, workers in cigar factories devised a way to keep their minds active and engaged during long hours of monotonous labor: they began paying a reader, or lector, to read aloud ...