(Image credit: Lazy Lightning [Flickr])Call...  ...lottery can also be traced back to China, where a warlord named Cheung Leung came up with a numbers game to...  ...e politicians' aversion to direct taxation, early American leaders often turned to lotteries to raise a buck...  .... Ben Franklin used them during...

The following is reprinted from Uncle John's...  ...ndell Holmes called taxes “the price we pay for civilization .” But few things provoke more outrage in people...  ...e purpose of the tax? To help pay for the Spanish- American war …in 1898. Phone service was so rare at...

1. The SPAM® MuseumOutside the Spam Museum. (I...  ...merica's favorite tinned meat. But vacationers be warned : In addition to major holidays, the museum will b...  ...92.Visitors are treated to exhibit that include a Civil War embalming display and a replica of a turn-of-...

While you're here, please take a look at Neatorama...  .... Death by Jury Demonstration After the Civil War , controversial Ohio politician Clement Vallandigh...  ...killing by a plant. Death by Bottle Cap American playwright Tennessee Williams [wiki] died in 1...

The Missing Body Parts of 10 Famous People....  ...wall" while bullets whizzed around him during the Civil War . But that kind of bravery (or foolhardiness) didn...  ...he penis. Currently, it's in the possession of an American urologist. 8. Oliver Cromwell's Head....

Mascots. You gotta love ‘em. They can...  .... England has its bulldog, France has a beautiful warrior woman, and America … well, America has a N...  ...icon born out of a military contract. During the War of 1812, a meat packer from Troy, N.Y., named Sam...  ...amuel Winslow won the right to supply...

Samuel Di...  ...Samuel Dinsmoor, a retired school teacher and Civil War vet, began building his Garden of Eden and Cabin...  ...ultimately everything from concrete, including an American flag and a stone mausoleum with a glass-topped co...