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On March 30, 1858, Hymen Lipman was granted Patent No 19,783 for a pencil with an attached eraser. Although lead pencils and

On November 19, 1863, a portion of the battlefield at Gettysburg, PA was dedicated as a national cemetery. Edward Everett,

October 30th is Candy Corn Day. Originally called Chicken Feed the confection was invented in the 1880s by the Wunderle

On September 5, 1914, the New York Post Office Building at Eighth Avenue between 31st and 33rd Streets opened. Carved into t

On September 2, 1901 at the Minnesota State Fair, Vice President Theodore Roosevelt first used the phrase, "speak softly an

Tucked into our brains are the mysterious channels of memory: one special kind memory is called "procedural memory." It is