Daunted by spotty record keeping and Black enslavement, a retiree traveled South in search of her family history ...

What is known is that the current design of the façade dates back to at least 1925, as it appears unchanged in a photo from ...

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Today when politicians are retreating from helping the poor and growth offers no panacea, we need another Dickens to inspire ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Modern medicine has enabled citizens of wealthy, industrialized nations to forget that children once routinely died in shocking numbers. Teaching 19th-century English ...

These days, there are a number of wineries in the market ... company selling wines and spirits. In 1870, he founded the family winery in the Old City’s Jewish Quarter. In the 1930s, the company ...

Designed by the architect Charles Follen McKim, of McKim, Mead & White, the building, which was adjacent to Morgan’s home, was completed in 1906, by which time Greene had been working for Morgan for ...

Some of the most fun, memorable cities are actually the smallest. Take a break from the major cities at these cool small ...

In the West Wing are Italian Renaissance masterpieces by Correggio, Titian and Raphael; in the North Wing, seventeenth-century Dutch, Flemish, Italian and Spanish Old Masters. In the East Wing are ...

There’s an old trope ... “Nobody has ever written English prose that can be compared with that of a prince of the only true Church.” Cardinal Newman wrote a treatise called An Essay in Aid of a ...

So it may seem like a brave choice for two Chicago entrepreneurs to launch a company making old-fashioned mechanical ... s first model is called the 1870 CE, which stands for “classic enamel.” ...