WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The Fourth of July holiday is this week and that means bright colors and big booms are coming to the night sky. Fireworks are a staple of the Independence Day celebration in the ...

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There was one simple thing that would truly make fireworks pop — color. It’s the Italians who are to be thanked for figuring out how to put the color in fireworks. In the 1830s, they combined metals ...

(The Conversation) – In the earliest days of the United States, John Adams wrote to his wife Abigail about the celebration of independence, “It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, ...