The poem is significant for being the first source to give the names of Santa’s reindeer, as well as establishing the image of the jolly fat Santa that we know ...

One of the organization’s first missions was in Nicaragua following the devastating 1972 earthquake. Since then, MSF has expanded its operations worldwide, responding to emergencies such as the Rwandan Genocide, the Ebola outbreaks in West Africa, and refugee ...

The first of the Mayflower Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts, where they established the Plymouth ...

Having begun power operation at the end of August 1951, on December 20 Atomic Energy Program scientists at the EBR-I successfully used the reactor to produce enough electricity to power four 200 watt light ...

Historical accounts, particularly from post-conquest sources, describe the central importance of a mass sacrifice involving around 4,000 prisoners of war in which the victims’ abdomens were cut open and their hearts ...

French aristocrat Count Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat set the world’s first officially recognised land speed ...

Orville piloted the first flight, which lasted for just 12 seconds over a total distance of only 36.5 ...

The British government had passed the Tea Act seven months earlier on 10 May, partly in an attempt to support the struggling East India ...

The Twenty-first Amendment repealed the Eighteenth Amendment which had made the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol ...

In the medieval period the Netherlands, whose name literally means ‘lower countries’, consisted of large areas of boggy land around the winding estuaries of three of the largest rivers in ...