Alexander Graham Bell has become somewhat of a house hold name, I remember learning about him at a very young age in school. He invented the first practical telephone. Maybe it was his name that made it stick but I’ve always remembered who he was. Recently, I stumbled upon an article about him and it re-sparked some interest. What I found was pretty cool, and something I definitely did not learn in school. To start with the basics, Alexander was →

Nils Olav, a King Penguin and Colonel-in-Chief of the Norwegian Royal Guard, was knighted on August 15, 2008.

In response to a Freedom of Information petition, the F.B.I. released its Hemingway file. It revealed that beginning in the 1940s J. Edgar Hoover had placed Ernest under surveillance because he was suspicious of Ernest’s activities in Cuba.