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A new shop selling aromatic teas that spotlight the history of American beverages is now open in downtown Charleston. Oliver ...
This interactive, designed and built by Slate’s Andrew Kahn, gives you a sense of the scale of the trans-Atlantic slave trade across time, as well as the flow of transport and eventual ...
Discover the history, craft, and language of drystone walling in Nick Aitken’s rich new guide to this global, enduring building tradition.
Patients in Workington will benefit from thousands more GP appointments each year as a local doctor’s surgery receives a bricks and mortar ...
Tiff's Treats, the original warm cookie delivery company, is debuting a brand-new, warm, gooey, ultimate shareable dessert: ...
“Proficiency” doesn’t mean what it used to. For instance, in the late 1700s to early 1800s, the population read averaged grade 16+ (above college) level. Though largely self-taught, their ...
We have already received approval and allocated Rs 1700 crore for 7 districts..." Chief Justice of India BR Gavai inaugurated the new advocate chamber and parking building at the Allahabad High ...
Mayor Eric Adams is losing his “war on rats” — in large part because his administration refuses to fully fund a Sanitation Department unit dealing with a backlog of more than 1,700 garbage ...
How close or far is it from half? In the late 1700s, amateur astronomer Johann Schröter noted that Venus often appeared to reach dichotomy a few days before or after calculations showed it would.
The farm has been in the Norton family since the mid-1700s. According to the business website, “Judson and Donald, along with their father, former Cheshire first selectman, Birdsey B.
For me, the earliest link is to Philip Turnor, the first surveyor employed by the HBC in the late 1700s. His journals chronicle the hardships of travelling via river and overland portage through ...