The bald eagle became the United States national bird on Dec. 24, 2024, approximately 242 years after most Americans assumed it already was our national bird. In 1782 the bald eagle was placed on the ...

In 1863, West Virginia became the 35th state. In 1893, a jury in New Bedford, Mass., found Lizzie Borden innocent of the ax murders of her father and stepmother. In 1943, race rioting erupted in ...

Here is something you may not know. It occupies a good three pages of Jack E. Davis's book The Bald Eagle: The Improbable Journey of America's Bird. Benjamin Franklin did not like the bald eagle and ...

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Most people know the Great Seal of the United States, which features an eagle and the national motto, "E pluribus unum," or "out of many, one." Many people do not realize that every state in the ...