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When the British surrendered at Yorktown, the American Revolution was over the battle for a new form of government had only just begun. The first issue to be faced by General Washington was a matter of pay for the Continental ...

No event in the annals of United States history is better known than the Boston Tea Party. The grassroots political movement even derives its name from it. But how much do we really know about it? As Paul Harvey used ...

Our whole economic system is waiting to implode … so why haven’t we just gone ahead and pulled the trigger already? No one pretends everything is fine anymore. Our political leaders talk about “soft landings” and a “gradual recovery” for ...

1776 John Adams, America’s second president, was well known for his love of Independence Day. Until the day he died, however, he also felt we had set the date two days late. Adams wrote that July 2, the date the ...

You didn’t vote for them, I can guarantee that, and it doesn’t even matter which box you checked during the last election. Few Americans know what all of the White House’s czars do, as they go about their work behind ...

I’ve always been a collector of trivia and otherwise little known facts. Here is an assortment of totally unrelated yet interesting facts about all things American. The number “172’” can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar ...

Whenever people begin to talk about the Founding Fathers of our nation, they generally think in terms of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and other such important figures of the Revolution. Of course, all of these deserve their place ...

If you ask the next ten people you meet why we started this country, three or four will answer “taxation without representation” while the rest will shrug and amble on by. In truth, the Declaration of Independence listed twenty-seven reasons, ...

Native Americans would respond to the question of who discovered America with a roll of the eyes and reply, “We did, of course.” And of course, they would be right. But the question still remains—who from the Old World first ...

Within the complex biological systems operating inside the human body, enzymes play an essential role in enabling and maintaining proper functioning. Many of the crucial biochemical reactions that occur inside the human organism would not be able take place at all without the mediating actions of enzymes, which catalyze processes both inside and outside cells that would not otherwise be possible. About 3,000 different enzymes have been discovered in the bodies of human beings so far, and medical experts estimate that 50,000 or more...