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For viewers on the hunt for great horror shows about demons, they shouldn't miss out on these excellent series, both animated ...
S OME 120 years on, few remember the outrage provoked by the awarding of the Nobel peace prize to Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th American president and, to his critics, a might-makes-right, America ...
Tarot is a cultural chameleon. It started as a courtly card game in 15th-century Italy, used in recreational settings and informed by the humanist culture of the period. It wasn’t until the 18th and ...
A 19th-century shipwreck packed with crates of unopened champagne has been found in the depths of the Baltic Sea.
There are 19th-century roots, too, to these A.I. ghost stories, and in “The Sandman,” Hoffmann identified the source with precision.
8-year-old kid with a metal detector stumbles upon a 19th century shipwreck Archeologists believe the boy may have found the remains of the St. Anthony, a schooner that crashed in 1856. By Mack ...
The end of the 19th century and the beginning of this one are both characterized by closely divided political parties and the absence of decisive elections (political scientists call them “critical” ...
Skeletal remains found on New Jersey beaches decades ago have been identified as those of a 19th-century schooner captain, thanks to the investigative efforts of college students.
From Jealous Spouses to Paranoid Bosses, Pedometers Quantified Suspicion in the 19th Century The devices were used to track movement and measure productivity—an insightful foreshadowing of our ...
Scrimshaw is a traditional 19th century art form now seen through a much wider context and a contemporary lens. That's the goal of an exhibit which challenges some old assumptions about the ...
This feature originally appeared on the Classic Rock website in August 2018. In 2023, the rustic character on the cover of Led Zeppelin IV was identified as Lot Longyear, a thatcher from the small ...
A decades-old cold case is solved after bones discovered on the beaches of the Jersey Shore were found to have belonged to a boat captain who died at sea in 1844.