Jimmy Carter worked as a peanut farmer before becoming president of the United States. Mikki Ansin/Getty Images Some American presidents had unexpected jobs before reaching the White House. Abraham Lincoln worked as a postmaster in New Salem, Illinois. John F. Kennedy was a journalist and reported on the end of World War II. While many
Happy birthday, America! This July 4, the United States commemorates the 250th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, the day the United States formally separated from England in 1776. A lot has happened in the last two centuries: inventions, wars, pandemics, space travel, to name a few. But there are still many
Each year, more than 2 million visitors come to Mount Rushmore to see the heads of Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt and Lincoln, according to the National Park Service. But more than 1,500 miles away, another pair of presidents’ heads has unexpectedly become a tourist destination in its own right. In Croaker, Virginia, about 10 miles north
A decommissioned nuclear silo near Denver, Colorado, that could once launch three 4.5-megaton nuclear missiles at a moment’s notice is now an entrepreneur’s pet project. Nik Halik, an Australian venture capitalist, purchased the decommissioned Cold War-era nuclear missile silo from the US government in 2021 for more than $10 million. For the past five years,