In the American Revolutionary War, the British were fighting for themselves against the Americans and, further into the war, the French.
The Declaration of Independence is named the Declaration of Independence because it is when the 13 colonies wrote their grievances to Great Britain and stated they will be separated from Britain's rule and be their own nation.
The conceiver of one of mankind's coolest ideas for boundless clean energy died last week. He was 90 and first published his ideas in 1968, a year before NASA put a man on the moon. In its December 1972 issue, Popular Science described engineer Peter Glaser's proposal:
