The first firework was pretty basic. A Chinese monk named Li Tian took a piece of bamboo, stuffed it with gunpowder, and threw it into a fire, producing a bang loud enough to scare away ghosts. That ...

You can post your pictures of fireworks on social media, but will anyone really look at them? We all know fireworks on a screen, TV or computer or phone, are not at all like watching them in person.