Author: Jonathan Carey / Source: Atlas Obscura For 60 years, the cities of San Francisco, California, and Osaka, Japan, enjoyed a robust cultural partnership. The two port enclaves were “sister cities,” a designation that illustrates one of several post-World War II attempts to embrace ethnic

Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama Soon after the end of World War I, the US ratified the 18th Amendment, ushering in Prohibition. Returning US soldiers weren’t all that enthusiastic about it, to say the least. Alcohol had been a part of military life since the American Revolution. As the

Author: Evan Nicole Brown / Source: Atlas Obscura On Sunday, access to all 490 National Parks in the United States is free in honor of Veteran’s Day. This year, the federal holiday marks 100 years since the end of World War I was officially declared on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th

Source: Atlas Obscura The Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) was the first place in the world to create graphene, levitate frogs, and entangle particles over long distances. Of course all of these innovations are made possible by the university being equipped with state-of-the-art

Source: Good News Network Happy Birthday to the fabulous Will Smith, who turns 50 today! The Philadelphia-born actor will celebrate by bungee jumping from a helicopter near the Grand Canyon. The “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” teamed up with charity website Omaze to make his jump into a fundraiser,