The work which the poet Emma Lazarus is best known is "The New Colossus" which is inscribed on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.

Antique collecting became a significant pastime in the 1800s when old object began to be appreciated for their beauty as well as for their historical importance.

Today modern textile mills can manufacture as much fabrics in a few seconds as it once took workers weeks to produce by hand.

Exploration of the Solar System is continuing and, at the present rate of progress, all the planets will have been contacted within the near 50 years.

American painter Georgia O'Keeffe is well-known as her large paintings of flowers in which single blossoms are presented as if in close-up.

The Hopi, the western most tribe of Pueblo Indians, have traditionally lived large multilevel structures clustered in towns.

Since their appearance on farms in the United States between 1913 and 1920, trucks have changed patterns of production and market of farm products.

In the New England colonies, Chippendale designs were adapted to locally tastes, and beautiful furniture resulted.

Despite television is the dominant entertainment medium for United States households, Garrison Keillor's Saturday radio show of folk songs and stories is heard by millions of people.

While highly prized for symbolizing good luck, the four-leaves clover is rarely found in nature