College football cheer leading is believed to have been created at the University of Minnesota in 1898. Their first group of six cheerleaders were men. Like the horse and buggy, this tradition is disa … Read More

Bobby Kennedy played football for Harvard in 1945, 1946 and 1947 Harvard Programs. His picture can be seen in Harvard program from this period, making them more collectable and valuable than other pro … Read More

We’ll bet you don’t know who Elizabeth Magie is off the top your head. Well, she invented the original Monopoly, at the time called the Landlord’s Game. She even applied for a patent for it in 1903. O … Read More

Harper & Brothers Publishers published an amazing book in 1895. It focuses on “Four American Universities,” specifically Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Columbia. The 202 page book offers great histo … Read More

Logarithms, the basis of slide rules, were invented by the Baron of Merchiston, John Napier, in Scotland in 1614. After a couple of centuries of tinkering and development, advanced mathematics took a … Read More