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Insects. Candles. Golf. Coal. Depending on who you ask, each of these three things had a role in the [...]

The United States and Britain have been adversaries at war, officially, twice: the American Revolution and [...]

On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 and its crew landed on the moon.  Famously, commander Neil Armstrong planted an [...]

Charlie Finley was a Major League Baseball team owner — the Kansas City (and after he moved them, [...]

Queen Elizabeth II, the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom, officially resides at Buckingham Palace. [...]

    Lord Howe Island sits roughly 370 miles off the eastern coast of Australia.  It’s [...]

It sounds — and looks — like something from the Indiana Jones movies.  But the Chapel of St. [...]

The above is a night-time satellite image.  Near the center you’ll see what looks like a small, [...]

Not Jason.  Ansel. Back in the 1850s, Ansel Bourne was a carpenter in Rhode Island.  In 1857, for [...]

In 1969, the movie Death of a Gunfighter debuted.  Starring Richard Widmark, Lena Horn, and Carroll [...]