1902: Joe Horn and Frank Hardart open the Automat at 818 Chestnut St. in Philadelphia. It's America's first coin-operated cafeteria. Customers would put nickels into slots, turn a knob and open a ...

While the town around him was engulfed by searing pyroclastic flows, one man achieved the impossible from a prison cell with a single ventilation shaft. Here’s how he did it. While humans have adapted ...

Featuring popular movies such as “Return of the Jedi” and “Lord of the Rings,” this year’s class of 25 films added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress also includes a silent short ...

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