In 1874, the U.S. government sent General George Custer on the Black Hills Expedition to choose a location for a new Army fort and to investigate the area's natural resources. The expedition's ...

After the Chinese conquest of the Viets in 111 BCE, various Chinese provincial names were used—the best known of which was Annam, meaning "pacified south." The term Viet was never used when the land ...

The latter brand—now called Watts 1874—has had an up-and-down history in the States. After being discovered by multilines in the 1990s, it made its way into the American market via showrooms ...

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On 1 July, 1874, the world's first commercially successful typewriter, the "Sholes & Glidden Type Writer", went on sale. Christopher Latham Sholes and Carlos Glidden had started developing their ...

The transits of Venus to take place in 1874 and 1882 are justly looked forward to by astronomers as the greatest astronomical events of the cen* tury in which they will occur. Why they are so ...

The American Association of Immunologists (AAI) is seeking an accomplished individual to fill the newly established position of Communications Mana ...

The bad blood between the dueling sides contributed to violent confrontations across the state — the Colfax massacre in April ...

What is now called the first Impressionist salon -- there were to be eight, the last in 1886 -- ran from April 15 to May 15, 1874. Enough by-the-numbers. The collective was called the Société ...

1874: On Oct. 15, the light — a first-order Fresnel lens made in Paris — begins to shine at the newly opened lighthouse, which has the same distinctive black and white spiral paint job and red ...

Sir Winston Churchill was a British prime minister and statesman who led the country to victory against Nazi Germany and the Axis powers in World War Two. Photo: Winston Churchill, photographed by ...