Napoleon Bonaparte’s Hat Auctioned for Record-Setting Price Fighting Wildfires Using Indigenous Practices Javier Milei Wins Presidential Election in Argentina Thanksgiving Turkey and Traditions Chef Sean Sherman Promotes Indigenous Foods Kenya and Other Nations Focus on Planting More Trees United Auto Workers Tentatively End Strike Satellite Photos Reveal Undiscovered Roman Forts Mapping the Underwater Eighth Continent Artifacts in Buddhist Monastery Inform Nepal’s History Indiana Limestone: An Important Building Material The Pima Canals: A Solution for Modern Water Problems in the Southwest An Englishman in Genghis Khan’s Empire Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks Named Ohio’s First UNESCO World Heritage Site An Ancient Comb Tells Us Something About Language The Johnstown Flood of 1889 A Pause in Seismic Blasting off Australia’s Western Coast You Know Uncle Sam. But Who is Brother Jonathan? Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to Narges Mohammadi Senator Dianne Feinstein Leaves a Legacy

Napoleon Bonaparte’s Hat Auctioned for Record-Setting Price
Nov 30, 2023

Napoleon Bonaparte’s Hat Auctioned for Record-Setting Price

On November 19, 2023, a hat once owned by French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte was auctioned in France for almost 2 million euros ($2.1 million). The selling price was more than double the expected auction price. The amount set a record for one of Napolean’s hats.   Napoleon is known for the distinctive style of two-cornered military […]

Fighting Wildfires Using Indigenous Practices
Nov 30, 2023

Fighting Wildfires Using Indigenous Practices

Wildfires are occurring more frequently and with greater intensity. Since 2015, wildfires in the United States have burned about 8 million acres each year on average. For the past 100 years, the prevailing government policy has been to suppress, or prevent, fires in national parks and other public lands. However, some federal and state agencies […]

Javier Milei Wins Presidential Election in Argentina
Nov 30, 2023

Javier Milei Wins Presidential Election in Argentina

On November 19, 2023, Javier Milei was elected the new president of Argentina. He won close to 56 percent of the votes in a run-off against the economy minister Sergio Massa. Massa won only 44 percent of the vote. This result was unexpected, and Milei’s victory came as a surprise to many, as he is […]

Thanksgiving Turkey and Traditions
Nov 21, 2023

Thanksgiving Turkey and Traditions

Americans love turkey on Thanksgiving, and it’s only fitting that the president pay homage to one of the countries dearest traditions. Just look at some of these turkey facts through American history. One of the country’s founding fathers Benjamin Franklin had proposed the turkey as the United States’ national bird, instead of the bald eagle. […]

Chef Sean Sherman Promotes Indigenous Foods
Nov 16, 2023

Chef Sean Sherman Promotes Indigenous Foods

Award-winning chef Sean Sherman has earned a reputation as an innovator by promoting Indigenous foods. For Sherman, a member of the Oglala Lakota Sioux tribe, that means cooking with ingredients that are native and naturally found throughout North America. Sherman does not use ingredients such as beef, pork, chicken, wheat flour, dairy, and cane sugar. […]

Kenya and Other Nations Focus on Planting More Trees
Nov 16, 2023

Kenya and Other Nations Focus on Planting More Trees

The east African nation of Kenya has a goal to grow 15 billion trees by 2032. This is part of an effort to restore trees to over 10 million hectares (over 38,000 square miles) of land. On Monday, November 13, 2023, this effort to improve Kenya’s environment received a major boost. Kenya’s government declared that […]

United Auto Workers Tentatively End Strike
Nov 16, 2023

United Auto Workers Tentatively End Strike

Members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) labor union went back to work on October 30, 2023. Since September 15, they had been on a historic strike against the “Big Three” U.S. automakers: Ford Motor Company, General Motors (GM), and Stellantis (formerly Chrysler). It was the first time the UAW had gone on strike at […]

Satellite Photos Reveal Undiscovered Roman Forts
Nov 9, 2023

Satellite Photos Reveal Undiscovered Roman Forts

Historians and archaeologists have held many debates about the purpose of hundreds of Roman forts throughout what today is Iraq, Syria, and Jordan. Many scientists thought Romans built the forts during the 2nd and 3rd centuries to protect the Roman empire’s eastern border from attack. However, researchers recently used Cold War era satellite images to […]

Mapping the Underwater Eighth Continent
Nov 9, 2023

Mapping the Underwater Eighth Continent

For hundreds of years, explorers and researchers believed Earth had an eighth continent, but they couldn’t find it. Then in 2017 scientists discovered an underwater landmass located southeast of Australia, under the islands of New Zealand. They named the underwater continent Zealandia. They began mapping parts of the landmass in 2019. Now in 2023, an […]

Artifacts in Buddhist Monastery Inform Nepal’s History
Nov 9, 2023

Artifacts in Buddhist Monastery Inform Nepal’s History

Nepal is a country located high in Asia’s Himalayan mountains. In the capital city of Kathmandu, a hidden treasure of religious objects was recently discovered at the Itumbaha monastery. This Buddhist monastery has a rich history dating back to the 1000s B.C.E. Precious objects had been lost for many years, buried in storage rooms under […]