A rare collection of 19th century ceramics recovered from a shipwreck is to go on display for the first time. The SS Eagle ...

But he made a huge impact during his life as a 19th-century sideshow performer ... Born Charles Stratton, General Tom Thumb’s appeal as a performer was not just his diminutive size.

An 168-year-old general store on Long Island — which ... A mix of candles, lavender, and the old wood that keeps the 19th-century homestead together also creates “a smell of its own ...

He is all about power politics in a crude and blustering way that is a disturbing and dangerous throwback to the 19th century ... NATO, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the European ...

two of the most prominent members of 19th century high society, managed to combine romance and scandal in a one-day trip to the minister's residence. But in addition to the marriage, they left ...

In the early 19th century, Europeans on the hunt for saltpeter ... workers were paid in tokens that were only accepted in the town's general store. "That was to trap people," Vergara said.

The mid-19th century women’s movement rose up in response to the ... These women did not advocate “identity or likeness, in general or in particulars, of the two sexes, but equivalence of ...

Punjab's historic Ferozepur Fort now open for visitors after two centuries, promoting military heritage and border tourism.

If the steam engine is an astonishing feat of engineering, so is Donoghue’s propulsive and thought-provoking 16th novel. The problems plaguing 19th-century France appear not so different from ...

Louisa Hollis, writing to her husband in London, reports: “Because of the Princess’s praise of Bermuda, the visitors are flocking here. “There were 81 on the Orinoco on Sunday.

The attorneys general of Idaho, Kansas and Missouri ... was common and broadly legal in the early decades of the 19th century. It was so common, in fact, that it contributed to dropping birthrates.

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