Near West Point, rising from the waters of the Hudson River, sits a Scottish castle in ruins. To passing commuters, it looks like the remnant
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How are you celebrating America’s 250th birthday this year? While we celebrate the Semiquincentennial, let’s hop back in time. A century ago, the nation was
On June 30, 1956, two commercial airliners flying at 21,000 feet collided over the Grand Canyon in Arizona. The crash killed 128 people and was
Two years after the Titanic redefined tragedy, a similar disaster struck the chilly waters of the Saint Lawrence River. The Empress of Ireland, a Canadian
On the morning of April 26, 1900, a chimney fire sent sparks onto a nearby roof on Chaudière Street in Hull, in the Canadian province
In March 1936, on a rain-soaked roadside in Nipomo, California, two lives collided for just 10 minutes. One woman held a camera; the other held
In 1926, in the heart of Chicago, five elite Black athletes took to the court and formed a basketball team known as the “Savoy Big
In 1925, a young widow named Olive Cummings Anderson launched a new column in The Paducah Sun in Kentucky. She wrote under the pen name
On the morning of November 9, 1874, New Yorkers were plunged into panic by a stunning story that appeared in the New York Herald. The
Ready for a spooky secret? Long before the days of candy corn and elaborate costumes, Halloween pranks were part of a Halloween celebration. The origins