Native Americans discovered the Lost Escalante Gold Mine in the Santa Catalina Mountains in 1698. The mine, which was worked intermittently, became known as the Mine With the Iron Door.

Syphilis was perhaps the only disease to ride the Columbian Exchange eastward.) But the blood of the new arrivals, and the mosquitoes that crossed with their ships, changed everything.

Indian American teen Shreya Gundelly was crowned the new Miss Wisconsin Teen USA last month, according to a report by WMTV. The 19-year-old from Mequon who is a pre-med student at New York ...