St. Joseph, Missouri was the gateway to the wild west and was the beginning point for the Pony Express, which ran to Sacramento, CA from 1860 to 1861.

The Medes were an ancient Iranian people with an empire flourishing in 6th century BC. They were eventually supplanted by Cyrus and the Persian Empire.

Albert Einstein (born on this date, Pi Day, 1879), was chosen as Time magazine's Person of the Century in 2000. Let's hear it for the egghead!

Bangladeshi national anthem

Rabindranath Tagore wrote the words to the national anthems of both Bangladesh ("Amar Shonar Bangla") and India ("Jana Gana Mana").

Fauvism

Fauvism was an early 20th-century art movement that emphasized strong color and brush strokes. The leaders of the movement were Henri Matisse and Andre Derain.

Hydrogen is the most abundant of the chemical elements, constituting roughly 75% of the universe's elemental mass, though estimates vary up to 90%.

In FIFA football, the goal is 24 feet wide and eight feet high (7.3 m by 2.44 m).