We last left off on our trip through the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World with three wonders left to learn about. The three remaining wonders include the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, the Colossus...

  If someone asked you to name all Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, would you be able to? Do you know which ones or how many of them are still in existence today? The Seven Wonders of the World...

  The Spartans, a recent popular topic and culture for movies and spoofs, have created interest in the warrior society of ancient Greece that reached the height of their power after defeating the...

  It’s a bird; it’s a plane. It’s an unidentified flying object? Unidentified flying objects, most commonly known in popular culture as UFOs, refer to alien spacecraft. Throughout history,...

As we all know, the success of the space program did not end with the Apollo missions. In fact, after the success of the Apollo 11 mission, NASA proposed a plan that included human flights to mars, a series...

This summer, Americans were able to witness the ending of an era. After 30 years of discovery, the final space shuttle mission ended on July 21, 2011 when the space shuttle Atlantis landed for the final...

  As college students here at the University of New Haven, we make up a vast collection of students from all over the country. Only a fraction of students are actually originally from the state of...

With Islam being the world’s second largest religion after Christianity, it is important to learn and understand different religions throughout the world. More than one billion people are followers of...

On June 16, 1884, the first roller coaster in America opened at Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York. Unlike the roller coasters we are familiar with today, this one was known as a switchback railway, and...

  After doing a "Did You Know" article on Memorial Day, it was only natural to write about another event that happens on the same weekend during the month of May: the Indy 500. The Indianapolis 500...

Once school ends for those of us in college and summer begins early during the middle of May, the first holiday we look forward to, especially because it means BBQs, beach trips, and a day with the family,...

They Royal Wedding has come and gone, and I don’t know about all of you, but I got up at 5:00 a.m. just to watch it. But today’s Did You Know is not about the most recent Royal Wedding that...

This past weekend, many Christians celebrated Easter. Additionally, one of the Jewish religion’s most sacred and widely observed holidays was observed this week as well. Passover, Pesach in Hebrew, is...

150 years ago, our nation amidst of tension between the northern and southern United States exploded into the American Civil War over issues involving states’ rights versus federal authority, westward...

Mardi Gras dates back thousands of years to pagan spring and fertility rites. Today it is a Christian holiday and popular cultural phenomenon. Also known as Carnival, it is celebrated in many countries...