You may have seen it on the news or in photographs: the glint of metal in the palm of the US President as they shake hands with a distinguished individual. This brief yet significant exchange may have piqued your curiosity, leaving you to wonder just what that shiny object might be. The answer lies in […]
It's almost a natural instinct when we're in a group and someone is taking a photo of us, for us to make some sort of hand gesture or sign—a big smile and a thumbs up, or a hand raised with an index finger proclaiming, "We're number one!" As humans, we communicate not only with words […]
Throughout the campuses of military academies across the nation, you will often hear the cadets chanting in a sing-song manner as they march. These chants usually are a call-and-response in which the officer or cadet in charge starts calling out a line and the formation of marching cadets answer. "Sound off!" "1,2!" "Sound off!" "3,4!" […]
