There is a good possibility that Mancala is the oldest-known board game ever played by humans.
“Turkish Girls Playing Mancala”–an engraving from 1907
Icons of Aviation History: Boeing 40B Airmail Carrier
The development of air mail in the 1920s was intended as a practical service by the Post Office, but it also served as a way for the US Government to encourage and subsidize research into long-range air transportation.
Boeing 40B on display at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago
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The First Kennedy Assassination Attempt
In 1960, before he even took office, President John Kennedy was the target of an odd assassination attempt that came very close to killing him.
Kennedy family at the “Winter White House” in Palm Beach FL official White House photo
Britain’s Civilian Aircraft Carriers
During the height of the Battle of the Atlantic in World War 2, the British defended their vital supply convoys against German U-boats with civilian cargo ships that had been fitted with flight decks to carry military aircraft.
Merchant Aircraft Carrier “Alexia” photo from Wikicommons
The 1922 Washington Treaty
In the decades before the Second World War, the international community made an unsuccessful attempt to avoid the looming conflict in the Pacific through an arms-control agreement that would limit the size and number of naval warships.
Delegates at the 1922 Washington Conference
Diesel: A Utopian Reformer and His Engine
The diesel engine today powers nearly every commercial, industrial and agricultural vehicle in the world, from merchant ships to eighteen-wheelers. But Rudolf Diesel originally saw his engine as a radical method of social reform.
Disney World’s Amphi-Cars
The Amphi-Car may be one of the oddest things you will see at Walt Disney World.
