Robert Falcon Scott and his party of four others likely starved to death on their return from the South Pole in 1912 because they underestimated their caloric needs and did […]
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Ex-slave Nancy Green becomes “Aunt Jemima”
The R.T. Davis Milling Company, new owner of the Aunt Jemima brand of self-rising pancake flour in 1890, decided to search for an African-American woman to hire as a living trademark […]
No more bread-and-water punishment in Navy
Beginning January 1, 2019, the traditional naval punishment of jailing junior sailors for three days with just bread and water to eat and drink went the way of flogging and keelhauling. […]