The World Series between the San Francisco Giants and the Kansas City Royals pits one of the oldest franchises in the sport against a comparatively young team added in the first major baseball expansion of 1969.
October, 2014
White House Down: Invasions of Washington in Culture and History
Summer blockbusters seem to proceed in pairs—the dueling volcano films, the competing asteroid films, and so on—and in 2013 the trend continued with a pair of action films in which 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. came under assault.
How an MIT Prank Became a Boston Landmark
The Harvard Bridge that spans the Charles River from Boston to Cambridge is getting new lights. An anonymous donor has given $2.5 million to illuminate the long flat stretch that takes Massachusetts Avenue across the river.
Eisenhower’s Scraped Knee
On this day, October 14, in 1890, Dwight Eisenhower was born. There are many interesting tidbits about Ike — like his problem with gambling, or his fascination with Gettysburg,
“Remember the Maine!”
On February 15, 1898, the U.S.S. Maine exploded in Havana Harbor. Although the spontaneous combustion of coal dust in the bunker beside the powder magazine probably touched off the explosion, a faction of Americans insisted that Spanish officials in Cuba had deliberately mined the ship.
What Grant’s Migraine Says about the Civil War
On April 8, 1865, General Ulysses S. Grant was having a hard night. His army had been harrying General Lee’s for days, and Grant knew it was only a question of time before Lee had to surrender.