The American Alligator is one of the largest reptiles in the world weighing from 450 to 500 pounds. The length of an adult varies from 13 to 18 feet. The tail is about half of the length. The alligator and the crocodile are very similar in appearance but there is a difference. The crocodile has a di...

When Franklin D. Roosevelt became the president of the United States in 1933, the nation's economy was in a state of turmoil. Industrial production slowed to about half its level prior to the depression, agricultural and other prices of goods fell to half of their previous value, and unemployment ju...

John F. Kennedy Jr. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on November 25, 1960, two and a half weeks after his father was elected president of the United States and less than two months before his father was inaugurated. Three years later, that father, murdered by an assassin's bullet, was bur...

Clara Barton Clara Barton the founder of the American Red Cross. Clara was born in Oxford, Masschusetts. She was the first woman hired to work as a clerk in the United States Patent office in Washington, D.C. Some people say she was the Angel of the Battlefield. Clare Barton was born on Dece...