Every year an inmate spends in prison costs taxpayers an average of $22,000. As prisoners get older, the cost of maintenance rises, ultimately reaching an average of $69,000 per year for those over the age of fifty-five. A...Read More

In 1951, Jack in the Box opened its first restaurant in San Diego, California, pioneering the drive-thru concept and featuring 18-cent hamburgers.

Shotgun houses were most popular before widespread ownership of the automobile allowed people to live further from businesses and other destinations and when building lots were kept small out of necessity, 30 feet (9 m) ...Read More

Arguably Miyzaki's most accessible film is My Neighbor Totoro (1988), a story of two sisters taken to the countryside by their father while their mother is hospitalized with a serious illness. While exploring their ...Read More

St. Francis, founder of the Franciscan religious order in 1209, was a layman born rich. When he embarked on a career of charity, his father disowned him.

Victoria Woodhall, the radical feminist who ran for the Presidency in 1872, feared that she would die if she went to bed in her old age. She spent the last four years of her life sitting in a chair. (She died at the age of...Read More