Is it all OK? On this day in 1839, the initials “O.K.” are first published in The Boston Morning Post. Meant as an abbreviation for “oll korrect,” a popular slang misspelling of “all correct” at the time, OK steadily made its way into the everyday speech of Americans. Of all the abbreviations used during that time, OK was propelled into the limelight when it was printed in the Boston Morning Post as part of a joke. During the late 1830s, it was a favorite practice among youn

On this day in 461 A.D., Saint Patrick, Christian missionary, bishop and apostle of Ireland, met his heavenly reward in Saul, Downpatrick, Ireland. Countless legends have grown up around Patrick and most of what is known comes from his book the Confessio. Born in Great Britain, probably in Scotland, to a well-to-do Christian family of Roman citizenship, Patrick was captured and enslaved at age 16 by Irish pirates. For the next six years, he worked as a shephard in Ireland, tu

141 Years ago today, in 1876, Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for his revolutionary new invention–the telephone. It all began in London, when young Alexander worked with his father, Melville Bell, who developed Visible Speech, a written system used to teach speaking to the deaf. In the 1870s, the Bells moved to Boston, Massachusetts, where the younger Bell found work as a teacher at the Pemberton Avenue School for the Deaf and later married one of his students. While