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Shutterstock The 1854 Ripon Republican Party Formation On March 20, 1854, people gathered in the Little White Schoolhouse in Ripon, Wisconsin. Alvan E. Bovay...
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Shutterstock The 1854 Ripon Republican Party Formation On March 20, 1854, people gathered in the Little White Schoolhouse in Ripon, Wisconsin. Alvan E. Bovay...
Wikimedia Commons/I.J. Witkind. Yellowstone’s 1959 Earthquake in the Rocky Mountains On a summer night in 1959, campers by the Madison River were jolted awake...
Shutterstock Nintendo of America (Washington) Minoru Arakawa started Nintendo of America in 1980 at the request of his father-in-law, Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi. The...
Flickr/raymondclarkeimages Wichita, Kansas The first White Castle opened in Wichita, Kansas in 1921, selling five-cent hamburgers that changed American fast food forever. Walter Anderson’s...
Shutterstock Earthquake Lake, Montana On August 17, 1959, at 11:37 p.m., Montana’s Hebgen Lake region shook apart. From that chaos came Earthquake Lake, born...
Shutterstock The Alamo (San Antonio, Texas) The Alamo started as a Spanish mission, became a Mexican army post, and ended up as the most...
Flickr/cmh2315fl Fort Donelson, Tennessee In February 1862, a young Union general named Ulysses S. Grant shocked the Confederate Army with two simple words that...
Shutterstock Lake Lenore Caves, Washington The Lake Lenore Caves don’t look like much from the road. Just holes in a cliff face in the...
Shutterstock The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes earned its name when Novarupta coated it with hundreds of feet...
Shutterstock The Birthplace of the “Silver State” Virginia City, Nevada, sits on a mountainside where miners struck it rich in the 1800s, finding so...