Everybody has to start somewhere. That includes all of the celebrities, billionaires, executives and CEOs of the world -- even U.S. presidents.
Vice President Joe Biden marks Veterans Day at Arlington National Cemetery.
The novelist and critic Thomas Mallon began to explore the idea of a book about letter writing, he tells us, "when a first-class stamp cost 29¢."
In winning the Nobel Peace Prize, President Obama joins an elite group of U.S. presidents. He is the fourth to win the prize, the third to win it while in office and the first to receive it during his first year in office.
When did the Heisman Trophy race become lengthier and costlier than a presidential campaign?
This is the Mother's Day we thought was going to be empty.
Agatha Christie was a painfully shy girl, so her mom homeschooled her even though her two older siblings attended private school.
In the explosion of outrage over the AIG executive bonus scandal, each party has hurled charges at the other. Both parties are blaming each other for rejecting measures that would have limited executive bonuses.
A little more than a month after taking office, President Obama addresses a joint session of Congress tonight, the 76th time a president has done so.
While President-elect Barack Obama will certainly be making history when he takes the oath of office on January 20, he'll also be repeating it -- by placing his hand on the same Bible that Abraham Lincoln used during the inauguration of 1861.
You might want to take John Hodgman's new book, "More Information Than You Require," with a grain of salt. Or maybe the whole shaker.
Humorist John Hodgman, known for his role in the ubiquitous Mac commercials and The Daily Show, discusses his new book.
On November 11, Americans pay tribute to everyone who has served in the U.S. military. But why was this particular date chosen, and how does this holiday differ from Memorial Day?
Call it reflexes in a crisis. Or instincts under pressure. The qualities that a President needs to succeed are both essential and elusive
March 30, 1981. Arguably the most powerful man in the world is shot.
Emmanuel Burriss is ecstatic. He is in awe. He is in mourning. Earlier this season, Burriss, a graduate of Woodrow Wilson High, became the first product of the Washington, D.C. public school system to play in the majors since 1972.
Universities are always looking for cash from their alumni (or anyone else with a big enough checkbook). But sometimes colleges are offered donations of another variety. Here are stories of six rather unusual gifts given to universities across the world.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Friday "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change."
We don't recall ever seeing them on our coins, stamps, or monuments, but we're told the following seven men were once president of the United States. Go figure!
Veterans Dayupdated: Thu Nov 10 2005 10:39:00
On November 11, Americans pay tribute to everyone who has served in the U.S. military. But why was this particular date chosen, and how does this holiday differ from Memorial Day?
Kenneth Crotty was 11 years old when the "great flu" hit his neighborhood in Framingham, outside Boston.
The last time the Boston Red Sox won the World Series, Woodrow Wilson was president, suffragettes were demanding that women get to vote and doughboys were "over there," fighting a war in France that wasn't called World War I because nobody knew there would be a World War II.
On August 26, 1920, the United States took a giant democratic leap when Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby certified the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, giving millions of American women the right to vote for the first time in the nation's history.
Retired Gen. Wesley Clark, a former Democratic presidential candidate, gave a prime time speech at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday. This is a transcript of his remarks.
The calendar is chock full of suspicious holidays, and we're not just talking Dog Biscuit Appreciation Day (Feb. 23, in case you missed it). Some seem to exist solely to fill card company coffers. ...
It's a diverse world of brand spokes-characters out there. At one end of the spectrum are cartoon animals like Tony the Tiger and cartoon figures like the Jolly Green Giant, which are obviously fic...
Listen to House Majority Whip Tom DeLay denounce the "death penalty," and you might think the Texas congressman was no longer a supporter of capital punishment. Not to worry. DeLay's rhetoric actua...
OKAY, Michael Hammer, how do you handle this one? Here's a line of business whose customer base is shrinking. Rivals battle for market share by offering deep discounts. If they hold the line on pri...
Money alone won't buy the Texas billionaire the presidency. ''If Ross Perot's message were the same as George Bush's,'' says GOP political analyst Kevin Phillips, ''his money would hang him.'' But ...
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