For 88 years, the annual pageant has awarded a woman with a title, scholarships and more
The mystery of Jack the Ripper's identity is still a mystery, although many, many men have been named as suspects at one time or another. One of the more far-fetched was Lewis Carroll, who published Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in 1865. The Ripper murders took place more than twenty years later, beginning in 1888. The connection between Carroll and the Ripper wasn't made until 1996, when author Richard Wallace wrote about the possibility.Of the names discussed, few would be more surprising than Carro...
Toronto in the 1990s was a time before the internet became a thing, before iPhones and Instagram. It was a very different place, an era when the me...
Scientist, conservationist, educator: for over four decades Dr. Biruté Mary Galdikas has studied and worked closely with the orangutans of Indonesian Borneo in their natural habitat, and is today the world’s foremost authority on the orangutan.
The first 'Miss America' competition was held in New Jersey in 1921. Since then, over 90 women have been crowned Miss America over the past 97 years.
El terremoto que inició en la falla de San Andrés y que sacudió a la ciudad de San Francisco, California, el 18 de abril de 1906, continúa siendo recordado debido a la enorme magnitud de los daños …
We all have our own ideas of what famous historical figures looked like but it doesn’t get as accurate as this.
Many people may not know that there were two other victims of Jack the Ripper which were identified by notable lawmen and newspapers.
In search of the origins of the English village Just how much information has come from excavation undertaken in advance of development work? In a major survey of Anglo-Saxon settlement, John Blair has been discovering what riches lie in the archives. It is useless for Anglo-Saxonists to deny it: Roman villas and Norman castles have a hugely greater impact on most people’s imagination than anything built in England between AD 400 and 1050. Yet small-scale works of art from the period — the Sutton Hoo and Staffordshire treasures, the Lindisfarne Gospels, the Alfred Jewel — are probably better known
The first 'Miss America' competition was held in New Jersey in 1921. Since then, over 90 women have been crowned Miss America over the past 97 years.
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Although some women, among them Elizabeth I and Boudica, are remembered, others such as Cartimandua of the Brigantes and Sumerian priestess Enheduanna are more obscure.
For 88 years, the annual pageant has awarded a woman with a title, scholarships and more
In January of 1966, the Chicago Freedom Movement led by Martin Luther King marched through Marquette Park for justice and open …
Twelve jurors have found former U.S. president Donald Trump guilty on all counts in his hush-money trial in New York, making him the first American president to be convicted of a felony.
Judge Harold A. Stevens was the highest paid African American judge in New York during the 1960s and 70s. Stevens was also the first African American ever elected to the General Sessions bench. Stevens was born on October 19, 1907, in Johns Island, South Carolina to William and Lilla Stevens. His father died when he was just three years old. He ...
The city where President Trump will hold his first political rally in months has a fraught racial history that begins with the Indian Removal Act in 1830 and ends with the city’s plan to dig for possible mass graves from a deadly 1921 race massacre.
