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Archaeologists found an 800-ton Dutch merchant vessel lost in 1857 off the coast of South Australia, offering a rare look ...
Florida, of all places, has been rebooting intercity passenger rail travel in America. Back in the late 19th century, the oil ...
The United States finalizes the Louisiana Purchase from France, adding the land from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains to its territory. Meriwether Lewis, of the legendary duo Lewis ...
Akina family members have witnessed major changes in South Maui as their enterprise changed and grew during nearly a century in the transportation business. General manager Cassie Akina-Ancog is a ...
Nathaniel Isaacs’s life defied convention. A white Jewish Englishman who came of age during the early 19th century, he spent much of his career on the outer reaches of the British Empire in Africa.
PITTSBURG, Kan. — We are entering the time of the year where more and more festivals and events are on the calendar. And at the Crawford County Historical Museum in Pittsburg, it’s Cow Creek ...
Other issues that women faced in the 19th century are well presented in the film. However, the makers could have worked better on the film's second half. The transition between showcasing certain ...
The new Apple TV+ historical drama “Carême,” out April 30, is made from a simple recipe: It’s one-part haute cuisine cooking drama, one-part sexy period romance, and two-parts French ...
Drone footage has captured a fire that broke out at a derelict 19th Century church. More than 20 firefighters were sent to Bethany English Calvinistic Methodist Chapel on Station Road in Port ...
Congress and the administration need to modernize outdated laws and regulations to comport with a twenty-first-century transportation system and be proactive instead of reactive. The United States ...
It’s really just an incredible effort.” Mendel, a citizen scientist, famously performed a series of experiments in the mid-nineteenth century in which he cross-bred some 28,000 pea plants to ...