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Since the late 1800s, Coney Island has played host to a circus-like environment of amusement parks. Today, [...]

  Alexander Graham Bell received a (controversial) patent for the telephone in 1876. A year later, [...]

We’re still probably a few years away from universal wi-fi in the developed world. Many municipal wireless [...]

As America’s society fractured during the lead-up to the Civil War, a senator from Vermont by the name [...]

  Volusia County, Florida, is located on the northeastern coast of the state. Like many other shoreline [...]

When the American, and, for that matter, global economy took a leap backward in the fall of 2008, many [...]

In 1997, the Hanson brothers — Zac, Taylor, and Isaac and their gloriously long hair — hit [...]

  Since coming to power in 1959, Cuban leader Fidel Castro (pictured above, from 1976) has been a thorn [...]

  The Old Farmer’s Almanac, pictured above, comes out on the second Tuesday in September and has [...]

  Gregor MacGregor, pictured above, was born in Scotland in 1786. At a young age, the Napoleonic Wars [...]