In 1919, screen legends Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and ... He dropped the plan later that year. File Photo by Leigh Vogel/UPI In 1971, Apollo 14 astronauts Alan Shepard ...

The Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome was hundreds of miles from anywhere and under siege from a contagious disease known as the ...

Nome, Alaska, remembers its saviors — the sled dogs and mushers who raced for more than five days through hypothermia, ...

A: Several events concerning Mary's life are commemorated during the yearly liturgical cycles of the Catholic ... As with Mary's Conception and Birth, many of the details associated with this event ...

Next week marks 100 years since the conclusion of the Great Serum Run, also known as the Great Race of Mercy, to deliver life ...

During the silent film era between the mid-1890s and the late 1920s, movies were almost always accompanied by live music. … ...

The Clinton County Historical Association’s portrait collection, of over 17,000 photos taken between 1890 and 1929, is a magnificent gallery of images reminding us of life ‘back in the day,’ putting ...

Ken Wiseman has always had an affinity for history. He traces his roots on his mother’s side to Peregrine White, a baby born ...

"The knot of Eve's disobedience was untied by Mary's obedience: what the virgin Eve bound through her disbelief, Mary loosened by her faith." (Irenaeus, Adv. haeres.) Comparing her with Eve, they call ...