March 21, 1935: New recruits at the barracks of the 7th Queen’s Own Hussars, a British cavalry outfit that dated to the 17th century, learned balance on wooden horses. Photo: The New York Times
Two levels below the bustling streets of Times Square, some things go to rest in peace. But some of those things, the newspaper has decided to resurrect.
"The crowd seemed incredible—like a bag of Skittles had been scattered down the slope."
June 14, 1757 Death of Karl August Archduke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. He made an intellectual center of Weimar through his invitation and patronage of Goethe, Herder, Schelling, Hegel and Schiller. June 14, 1862 Birth of John Ulric Nef in Herisau, Switzerland. Nef was a chemist who demonstrated that carbon can have a valence. He came to
For most living in the long nineteenth century, death was a constant companion. It crept about nurseries and palaces, laid its finger on the poorest in the land to the richest, and disrupted even t…
Amy Hall is charged with first-degree murder and two counts of shooting with intent after her son was killed and one of her daughters was gravely injured