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Before Wikipedia, there was the Oxford English Dictionary, a Victorian era crowdsourcing project
Salon via Yahoo News· 7 months agoAntiquarian copies of The New English Dictionary Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images Images...
Did an Elmira man kill the last Labrador Duck? Last known sighting occurred during flood
The Star Gazette via Yahoo News· 6 months agoI grew up in the “Buttonwood Settlement” (the Brand Park area) of Elmira's Southside, where my...
Sheboygan storefront, today home to Black Pig restaurant, was once occupied by Montgomery Ward
The Sheboygan Press via Yahoo News· 8 months agoSHEBOYGAN - The Sheboygan Press featured a nearly full-page story touting the June 1936 opening of...
The death of John Motson is the death of the last ‘voice of a sport’
The Independent via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe sudden death of John Motson – the BBC’s legendary football commentator – at the age of 77 on...
David Murdock Column: On the Mary Celeste, one of the great mysteries
The Gadsden Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThis month marks the 150th anniversary of the discovery of one of the greatest — if not the greatest...
New England stone walls lie at the intersection of history, archaeology, ecology and geoscience, and...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 4 weeks agoA typical New England stone wall in Hebron, Conn. Robert M. Thorson, CC BY-ND The abandoned...
Wilhelm: U.S. Capitol's statues are an interesting group of individuals
The News-Messenger via Yahoo News· 9 months agoLast week’s column about George Washington Glick, who was a young lawyer in Fremont who became a political leader and governor of Kansas, spurred my interest in the National Statuary Hall in ...
At 6 mph, a ride on Pittsburgh’s historic incline shows what Cincinnati used to have
Cincinnati.com | The Enquirer via Yahoo News· 5 months agoCincinnati’s five inclines helped residents climb the city’s hills. They are long gone. But...