The year is 1995. The World Wide Web is 5 years old. 18 million American homes are now online, but only 3% of online users have ever signed on to the Web, according to the Pew Research Center.* The first planet outside our solar system is found…
You may have noticed something new included in your search results recently. EBSCO has added video content from Associated Press to Discovery, Explora, and EBSCOhost for all institutions. Content includes approximately 60,000 videos from 1930 to…
Celebrate by reading Smithsonian in GALILEO! The Smithsonian Institution was founded on this date in 1846 when the United States Congress passed the legislation for an establishment dedicated to the "increase and diffusion of knowledge." It is named…
On August 9, 1967, one of the most gifted athletes in Georgia sports history, Deion Sanders, was born in Fort Myers, Florida. If you grew up near Atlanta during the early 90s, you most likely have heard the nicknames “Primetime” and “Neon…
On this day in 1993, the Georgia Lottery began. In the early 90s, Governor Zell Miller campaigned for a state lottery which would fund education. In 1991, Georgia’s constitution was amended to designate lottery funds could only be used for…