The world before electricity and gas lighting was a very dark place. If you could afford them–and most ordinary people couldn’t–oil lamps and candles made from beeswax shed some light. Most people made do with rush lights or smoky, smelly… Read More
The Mason-Dixon line was created by scientists Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, who were surveying the wilderness between Pennsylvania and Maryland to settle a boundary dispute. Later it became the boundary between slave and free states.