Wheelchairs have been a common sight since the beginning of the 20th century. Designed to help the disabled obtain some kind of movement and mobility without the...
Weddings Are for Sharing With Loved Ones When people get married, they spend one perfect day with their most loved friends and family. While many people...
The first half the 20th century was not a good one for Blanche Fixler. As a Jew, she was a target for the Nazis, who succeeded in...
Getting sent to Riker’s Island was like a criminal’s bad luck ending in a Batman movie. For decades, the location has been the New York City...
Blind people can do a lot of things others don’t assume are possible without basic vision. However, skateboarding is definitely not one of them, right? Well,...
Day Trip Turns Into Two-Day Trip A young woman hiking in Colorado found herself completely unprepared when she fell down a 90-foot cliff, becoming badly injured....
Madison, WI has a total of nine public libraries. They stock everything from classic books to magazines to newspapers to digital reading assets, like audiobooks and...
Do animals adopt young of other species? It’s been known to happen among canines as well as raptors. However, for the first time, marine scientists have...
Most people think of hyenas as scavengers and vicious animals that dying creatures have to fend off in the African Serengeti. The last thing the majority...
Monarch butterflies are well known for their migratory patterns, traveling from the far north Pacific Northwest all the way down to Mexico and back. However, over...