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One of the distinguishing aspects of the much anticipated “Superfine” exhibition at The Met is that it’s the first dedicated ...
Fayette Historic State Park in Garden, Michigan might be the best-kept secret in the Great Lakes State’s impressive ...
Another year, another Big Ten regular season title for the Ohio State men's tennis team. For the 19th consecutive season, the Buckeyes will be the No. 1 seed in the Big Ten Tournament. Ohio State ...
A New Jersey councilman and high-ranking Lucchese crime family members are among dozens nabbed in a massive mobbed-up gambling ring allegedly ... way since the 19th century, Platkin said.
PROVIDENCE – Four men who authorities believe are tied to a South American organized retail theft ring responsible for stealing tens of thousands of dollars worth of merchandise from stores in ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Brody Penn tried every sport as a kid. He started with gymnastics, but his parents worried the gym was too far away. So they signed him up for baseball and soccer, only to have ...
European versions began taking hold in the 19th century thanks in large part to the work of Parisian civil servant Claude-Philibert Barthelot. By 1917, the public restroom staple was culturally ...
Photo: Paul J. RICHARDS / AFP/File In the mid-19th century, two conflicts over the opium trade, which became known as the Opium Wars, pitted China against the British Empire. The first began in 1839, ...
In this telling, high tariffs fueled America’s nineteenth-century industrial rise. Tariff-supporters like Oren Cass have argued that the United States “transformed from colonial backwater to continent ...
Named for French inventor Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, the daguerreotype was the world's first successful form of photography — and it captured historic images of everyone from Abraham Lincoln to ...
A fragment of manuscript found in the book binding of a 16th-century archival register was actually a famed King Arthur sequel series. University of Cambridge For centuries, the stories of King ...