10 Reasons You Should Visit Santa Clara, CA, Host City for Super Bowl 50

demetria lucas February 1, 2016

Santa Clara, California is hosting the Super Bowl 2016 for the first time. Judging by the city’s official Instagram and government website, residents are stoked. The city is hosting a (sold out) day long ‘Countdown to Kickoff’ celebration complete with fireworks and a celebrity football game.

But not to worry. If you’re heading to Super Bowl 2016 to watch Cam Newton dab on ‘em, then there is plenty to do in the city before and after the big game. Here are the top 10 things to do when you decide to #SeeSomeSantaClara. — Marquaysa Battle

The Rich & The Petty: How Creeping Changed the Baltimore Skyline

demetria lucas January 20, 2016

Meet Isaac E. Emerson. He earned a chemistry degree, then moved to Baltimore and opened up a pharmacy. Soon he had three pharmacies.

Emerson noticed that his customers were always complaining of headaches. The products he was selling weren’t doing the trick. He, being a chemist and all, decided to make a concoction that would cure what ailed them.

This is how we get Bromo Seltzer, which turned out to be a mild tranquilizer and was lethal in high doses. The FDA banned the product in the 1980s. But the company had almost a 100-year run and amassed millions before that happened.

But that’s not what we’re here to talk about.