The catty and outrageously wealthy inspirations for HBO’s “The Gilded Age” were even more outlandish than their fictional counterparts.

The name Advent (From the Latin word Adventus, which signifies a coming) is applied, in the Latin Church, to that period of the year, during which the Church requires the faithful to prepare for ...

“On a really good day, you can see 10 to 15 feet,” he said. “By covering up your light, you can sometimes see the outline of the old dam through the greenish color in the water. But it can ...