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Could it be our fascination with George Washington's Mona Lisa smile? What else keeps the dollar bill alive despite its obvious obsolescence? Most industrialized economies don't waste time with paper money of ...

Found in a coffee shop this morning: a 30-page book, allegedly written by the alleged father of this alleged country-when he was allegedly 14 years old!-on how not to be a total jackass.

One of America's greatest inventors and most transformative African American educators was born a sickly baby into slavery in Missouri.

Vice President Dick Cheney arrives at George Washington Hospital for his annual medical checkup in Washington on Saturday, July 12, 2008.

Vancouver's Army Reserve unit will observe the 100th anniversary of U.S. Army Reserve on July 19 with a fun run, a historic soldiers bivouac and a barbecue.

If the presidential election goes to the dogs, John McCain is looking like best in show.

The Beatles were a cultural and musical phenomenon that hit the U.S. at the beginning of 1964.

Benjamin Franklin and Betsy Ross celebrated the eve of the Fourth of July not with fireworks but with wedding vows.

The archaeologists were delighted to at last find the remains of George Washington's boyhood home but got stumped when they looked for evidence of the cherry tree and rusty hatchet.

Enjoy an evening of music by The Police and Elvis Costello at one of Washington's most picturesque venues - "The Gorge" in George, WA.

The expanded use of formal rules on Capitol Hill is unprecedented and is bringing government to its knees.

It began offhandedly in the fall of 1775. Unable to attack British-occupied Boston because of shortages of cannons and gunpowder, George Washington observed the flow of enemy supplies into Boston harbor and ...

Somewhere in a distant time I saw George Washington in blue Jell-O, his wobbly head free-standing outside its mould.

"England expects that every dragon will do its duty?" This ain't Lord Nelson's Royal Navy.

P2P:- French culture minister Christine Albanel has formally presented the 'three strikes and you're out' P2P file sharing bill to cabinet, effectively turning the country into a massive taxpayer financed, but ...

Just as the U.S. presidential race got specific by narrowing to a two-candidate field recently, Of Great and Mortal Men: 43 Songs for 43 Presidencies -- the "Schoolhouse Rock!"-style tribute to the United ...

It ended with the exchange of ratifications of the Treaty of Ghent . Major causes of the war The tensions that caused the War of 1812 arose from the French revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars .

New DVD releases this week: "John Adams" Paul Giamatti stars as one of the United States' key founding fathers in this acclaimed miniseries, which features Laura Linney as his wife, Abigail Adams, Tom Wilkinson ...

Our Founding Fathers, including George Washington, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, all commissioned "silhouettes" or "profile shades" of themselves.

By the time Congress finishes the latest "emergency" war spending bill, a mere seven years into the emergency, the cost of operations in Iraq and Afghanistan will have exceeded $860 billion.