→ Did you know the Ides of March is on March 15? This historical date will forever be analogous to the assignation of the Roman General Julius Caesar. Countrymen celebrated…
The first all-black hockey league: The colored hockey league of the maritimes
→ Did you know Nova Scotia is the birthplace of hockey? Originated in the 1800s when students from Kings College in Canada merged their love for the field game of…
Stanford dropout’s $9B health tech company built on an idea that didn’t pan out
By 2004, Holmes had raised $6 million in capital to fund Theranos, even after being warned by several experts that the technology she proposed would not be able to do…
BLACK HISTORY MONTH: Recognizing the greats from our own backyard
Carter G. Woodson was coined the father of Black History Month after enstating a history week in 1926. → Did you know Black History Month is not only celebrated in…
CRIMINAL MINDS: Notorious criminals that once walked our streets
With the popularity of TV channels like Investigation Discovery showing us crime around the world, many of us have become true crime junkies doing a bit of crime-solving from the…
Coraopolis remained relatively unscathed during the 1918 flu
Beginning in January 1918, the Spanish Flu epidemic began to take hold around the world with over a third of the world’s population coming down with this new strain of…
Fun facts: ‘The West Side is the Best Side’
→ Did you know the western Ohio River communities of Crafton, Ingram, McKees Rocks, Stowe, Kennedy, Robinson, Neville Island and Coraopolis are among some of the oldest neighborhoods in the county?…






