1626: An explosion at the Wanggongchang Gunpowder Factory in Beijing destroys part of the city and kills 20,000 people. 1640: Flemish Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens dies aged 62.

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If Christopher Lee hadn’t died at age 93 in 2015, he would have turned 103 on May 27. In his 93 years on this planet, however ...

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A tiny coterie of authors have produced more than one standard book on Texas history. Stephen L. Hardin is among them. In 1989, Hardin wrote "Texian Iliad: A Military History ...

What has stood out most to me in the reopening of the Frick is the extraordinary response it has elicited,” director Axel ...