A Brief History of Penmanship on National Handwriting Day
Borrowing aspects of the Etruscan alphabet, the ancient Romans were among the first to develop a written script for transactions and correspondence. By the fifth century A.D. it included early versions...
View ArticleCelebrate a Southpaw, It’s Left-Handers’ Day
Scientists have been unable to pinpoint a definitive timeline for when man developed distinctive handedness. While some primates today show a clear preference for one hand over the other, there is less...
View ArticleGroundhog Was Once on Punxsutawney’s Menu
On February 2, 1887—a few months after an inferno had reduced a third of the commercial buildings in Punxsutawney to ashes—a small group of men ascended a wooded area a mile outside the small western...
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