
On This Day
Dec 12, 1800 – Washington, DC, was established as the capital of the United States.

Software engineer teaches homeless man how to code
Watch the video Software engineer teaches homeless man how to code on Yahoo News . Jim Dolan reports they have developed a top 5 app.
“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”
Chinese Proverb
The Best Books of 2013
Dan Chiasson, Rivka Galchen, Joyce Carol Oates, and other contributors recommend their favorite books they read this year: http://nyr.kr/18kPfQ5Above: Seamus Heaney, photographed in a London park in 1995. Photograph by Johnny Eggitt/AFP/Getty.

1915 Letter To Santa May Make Today’s Kids Feel Pretty Greedy In Comparison
A box of paint, a school bag and maybe a bit of candy: These were the items desired by one modest little boy writing…MORE





