A number of horror films have been made that were inspired by real-life events, whether it be The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ...

The wealthy owners of Staatsburgh, a historic Gilded Age mansion outside New York City, had tickets for the Titanic's second ...

Denise Vogt, co-chair of the Foggy Bottom Association’s History Project Committee, has a personal interest in preservation of the neighborhood. Her parents lived in Foggy Bottom for more than 35 years ...

I was chatting with an editor friend recently, and we both agreed that there’s just something wonderful about the simplicity ...

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, Raisa Tolchinsky types poetry on demand, there’s a bluegrass ...

SINGING WITH FAITHFUL 2 —Friday, April 18, 7 p.m. Community Shakesview Church, 2475 Shakesville Road, Bristol. Va. For more information, call 713-498-1191 or visit www.faithful2.org.

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We reveal original designs and alternative plans for some iconic monuments, so you can imagine the world's cityscapes as they ...

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To avoid humiliation, he said, they needed to come up with “something novel, original, daring and unique.” One of their number, George Washington Gale Ferris Jr., a 33-year-old engineer from ...

In a tribute to the upcoming 250th anniversary of the American Revolutionary War, the USPS has released a new stamp pane.