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At the National Museum of American History one day last July, an upright piano stood on a stage. Beside it, on a wooden pallet, was a strange metal contraption about five feet high. The Ring King ...

The battles were over, but the soldiers still fought. Flashbacks, nightmares, and depression plagued them. Some slurred their speech. Others couldn’t concentrate. Haunted and fearful, the ...

An illustration of a magnifying glass. An illustration of a magnifying glass.

“The fact that we all managed to miss this for so many years … it’s breathtaking.” The authorities behind collecting the original data in the 1800s included Simeon DeWitt, the head of the New York ...

BENTON HARBOR — In 1870, about 50 women in Massachusetts voted in a local election – about 50 years before the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution gave women the right to vote in 1920. One ...

As the water level dropped a dozen barges were being uncovered. The barges were believed to have been deliberately ‘scuttled’ in the early part of the 1800s as a convenient way of disposing with them ...

The pneumatic tire and the chain drive, followed by the development of gears, revolutionized bicycling in the later 1800s. In the last fifteen years, there has been a revolution of sorts in the ...

Experts from the IAA revealed that the ring depicts a naked figure wearing a helmet, holding a spear and shield. "Yair's identification of the figure as a warrior is very close to reality. The figure ...

The Lambing Flat Chinese Tribute Gardens are located at the Chinaman's Dam reserve just four kilometres from the town centre. Now, a well established garden. The Lambing Flat Chinese Tribute Gardens ...

Frederick Douglass, the famed abolitionist and orator, who was formerly enslaved, became an unexpected champion of “the Chinaman,” as many called the new arrivals, on the lecture circuit.