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Love caves? Here's how local history went underground with the Hagerstown Grotto
The Herald-Mail via Yahoo News· 9 months agoIn early May 1953, George Martin Burhans sat down at his typewriter to write The Tri-State Caver —...
Alan Cottrill unveils Chief Netawatwees statue in Newcomerstown
The Daily Jeffersonian via Yahoo News· 1 year agoNEWCOMERSTOWN ‒ The Wise Counselor has returned to the village. Chief Netawatwees, known as the Wise...
Erie man discovers early Underground Railroad station and once-enslaved couple who ran it
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe site of a previously unknown Underground Railroad station in Erie will be commemorated by a new...
The height differences between all the US presidents and first ladies
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 1 year agoGeorge Washington stood at a towering 6-foot-2 compared to his wife Martha's height of 5...
John D. Waters built a livestock empire, a mansion, and had a meteorite in his front yard
The State Journal-Register via Yahoo News· 8 months agoJohn D. Waters built a livestock empire in eastern Sangamon County. He also built a mansion south of...
Review: Korean Modern art gets its long-overdue spotlight at LACMA
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoArtists, being people, are drawn to power. Like moths to a flame. What they do in their work with...
Buffalo Soldiers: Paterson men of honor remembered for rescue in Cuba 125 years ago
The Bergen Record via Yahoo News· 1 year agoPaterson natives and Buffalo Soldiers William Thompkins and George Wanton waded through rifle and...
Israel and the Puritans: A dangerous historical romance
Salon via Yahoo News· 2 months agoThe first landing of the Pilgrims, 1620. Getty Images/Bettmann "Humankind cannot bear very much...
Black royals say Hollywood erased their existence. They're fighting to change the whitewashed...
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 1 month agoPictured from left to right: Sierra Leone's Princess Sarah, Nigeria's Princess Keisha and Prince...
The strange story of why Kentucky officials must swear they never fought in a duel
Cincinnati.com | The Enquirer via Yahoo News· 11 months agoKentucky is the only state in the country where the swearing-in ceremony of people taking their oath...