It was the original social media craze, inspiring millions of people to pour freezing water on their friends in the name of charity.
But the collateral of the ice bucket challenge — which died years before TikTok was even born — is still being felt to this day.
The Ice Bucket Challenge worked by giving people two choices, similar to a ‘trick’ or ‘treat’.
Either they had big containers of ice water poured over their heads or they made a
One of the world’s greatest conveniences was conceived amid its greatest hardships.
Sylvan Goldman, son of immigrant pioneers, invented the shopping cart.
His brilliantly simple idea was born in Oklahoma during global economic calamity and as the Great Plains were recovering from ecological disaster.
“The simplest inventions are always the most fascinating,” Larry O’Dell, the state historian for the Oklahoma Historical Society, told Fox News Digital.
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Great scientists become immortalized in various ways.
Some through names for obscure units of measurement (à la Hertz, Faraday and Curie). Others in elements on the periodic table (Mendeleev, Seaborg, Bohr, among many others). A few become household names symbolizing genius — like Newton in centuries past and nowadays, Einstein. But only one has been honored on millions and millions of cartons of milk: the French chemist, biologist and evangelist for experimental science Louis Pasteur.
Pasteur was born 200 years
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An unheralded entrepreneur born in Urbana, Ill., outwitted the titans of industry in the effort to domesticate the untamed American roads of the early 20th century.
His name was Roland R. Conklin — and he was a visionary in the early days of the automobile. He put all the comforts of home on wheels — and in dramatic style.
Conklin introduced in 1915 the first full-scale motor home, dubbed the “Gypsy
