TIME
September 2, 1940 12:00 AM GMT-4
Unlike most other juvenile journals, Young America, published by a slick-haired, rich young man named Stuart Scheftel, is sold only to boys and girls in junior-high and elementary schools, at 25¢ for a term of 18 weeks. It looks like a dignified, grownup, twelve-page tabloid newspaper, with plenty of pictures, cartoons, maps, charts. Young America, with 296,000 circulation, is the fourth biggest children’s magazine in the U. Read More...
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Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder plot The story of Bonfire Night, Guy Fawkes and the failed gunpowder plot has been famous for centuries. On the night of November 5th, 1605, Guy Fawkes, along with other conspirators, planned to blow up the Houses of Parliament. They wanted the explosion to take place when King James I (of England) was present in the building. Read More...
First, we expected takeout food on demand. Then we wanted groceries fast. Now, Amazon’s hottest products are bug-out bags, military meal replacement kits and iodine pills—taken in the event of a nuclear bomb dropping or a nuclear energy facility meltdown.
The threat of an escalation in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, now entering its third week, has pushed items more likely to be used in the event of nuclear war to the top of best-seller charts on the world’s largest e-commerce site. Read More...
