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ArticleHappy 250th Birth­day USA!

Layton Thomas Banks was born in Manchester, Ten­nessee on April 8, 1921, the eighth of ten chil­dren, to John Thomas and Vir­ginia “Jen­nie” (Pirtle) Banks. The fam­ily moved to Howe, Grayson County, Texas in 1923, and to Dal­las in 1933. Layton...

ArticleNot­able facts about the land of the free

The United States of Amer­ica is often char­ac­ter­ized as “the land of the free,” a char­ac­ter­iz­a­tion that serves as a feather in the cap of the nation that will cel­eb­rate its two hun­dred and fiftieth anniversary in 2026. Upon hear­ing the...

ArticleAlaska’s loc­a­tion makes it a par­tic­u­larly unique place in the land of the free.

It may sur­prise no one to learn that Alaska fea­tures the north­ern­most point in all of the United States. But it may raise an eye­brow or two to learn that The Last Fron­tier con­tains both the east­ern­most and west­ern­most points in the coun­try....

ArticleThe tallest moun­tain in the world is in Amer­ica.

Climbers who train for years in the hopes of one day mak­ing their way up Mount Everest might be sur­prised to learn the moun­tain loc­ated on the bor­der between Koshi Province, Nepal and the Tibet Autonom­ous Region is not, in fact, the world’s...

ArticleYou end up in the “same” place no mat­ter which dir­ec­tion you go when depart­ing Stam­ford, Con­necti­cut.

ArticleOre­gon is home to one of the world’s deep­est lakes.

With a depth of approx­im­ately 1,950 feet, Crater Lake in south-cent­ral Ore­gon is the elev­enth deep­est lake in the world and the second deep­est lake in North Amer­ica. The National Park Ser­vice notes that Crater Lake, fed by rain and snow, is...