Dr. Robert Ballard, a marine archaeologist, has discovered and explored some amazing things at the bottom of the ocean. Using sonar and deep-sea submersible vehicles, he and his team are able to locate and photograph shipwrecks, deep-sea life, and underwater formations. Here are some of the amazing things he has done: Discover the wreck of the [...]
In 1791, President George Washington appointed Major Pierre Charles L’Enfant to design the new capital city, originally named the City of Washington, and to be placed in the area known as the Territory of Columbia. L’Enfant’s plan was to place the “Congress House” on Jenkins Hill, and specifying its longitude as zero, making it an [...]
On May 9 in 1914, President Woodrow Wilson issued a presidential proclamation officially establishing the first national Mother’s Day holiday to celebrate America’s mothers. The idea for an official mother’s day is credited by some to Julia Ward Howe (1872) and by others to Anna Jarvis (1907), who both suggested a holiday dedicated to a [...]
William McKinley was the 25th President of the United States and served two terms. Here are some interesting facts you may not have known about McKinley’s two inaugurations: William McKinley’s first inauguration in 1897 was the first to be recorded by a movie camera. You can watch the silent film in which McKinley takes the [...]
“I never saw another butterfly.” This April, that refrain, from a poem written during the Holocaust called The Butterfly, inspired WorldStrides employees across the United States to remember children killed by the Nazis. In conjunction with the series of Holocaust commemorations known as the National Days of Remembrance, our offices collected butterflies, created in memory of [...]
