Did you know that Lady Liberty would wear a size 879 shoe if she was a real person? What about the fact that it cost $500,000 (or over $10 million in today’s money) to build the Statue? In honor of ...

Growing up, “Teddie” was a sickly child who suffered from asthma. His father, who wanted a rugged son, was completely disappointed. Teddie decided that he would “make his body” and enrolled in...

The first organization of countries was the League of Nations, which was founded in 1919 under the Treaty of Versailles. Its main goal was “to promote international cooperation and to achieve peace ...

When Thomas Jefferson became president, one of his top priorities was to purchase the port of New Orleans, located at the mouth of the Mississippi River on the Gulf of Mexico. He wanted to own this la...

Did you know there has been the same number of presidents born in Texas as in North Carolina? How about the fact that more presidents have been born in Virginia than any other state? Surprisingly, the...

Russia was more than willing to sell off its Alaska territory to the United States because it was nervous of losing it in war, particularly to Great Britain. The state was difficult to defend and very...

Even though President Washington chose the site of the president’s home, he never had the chance to live in it. In 1800, President Adams was the first person to live in the “White House,” which ...

Historians are unsure of what exactly caused the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, but legend says that it was a cow. The blaze started in the barn of Mr. and Mrs. Patrick and Catherine O’Leary, a poor Ch...

More United States presidents were born in October than any other month—and none of them were born on the same day. Can you name all of them? Here are a few hints about each of the six: 1. He was a ...

Two presidents, Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR), were involved in making Thanksgiving a formal holiday, but George Washington was actually the first president to proclaim a day of than...