The Appalachian Trail Conservancy headquarters at 799 Washington Street in Harpers Ferry honors Earl Shaffer’s historic 2,000 ...
Imagine Exhibitions, which owns Real Bodies, has categorically denied Kim’s claims. The company stated the disputed specimen ...
The Orlando shutdown is part of a wave of Frito-Lay plant closures across the country. In June 2025, PepsiCo closed a 50-year ...
Henley & Partners reported a 660% spike in Americans applying for Costa Rica residency in 2025, and the country climbed to ...
In June 2024, activist hedge fund Elliott Investment Management announced it had acquired an 11% stake in Southwest, worth ...
In summer 1950, polio hit tiny Wytheville, Virginia with brutal force. The first case struck 20-month-old Johnny Seccafico in late June. Soon after, the town of just 5,500 people had 184 cases—one in ...
Stone Mountain wasn’t just a big rock in Georgia. It was the heart of an empire. In 1887, the Venable brothers bought this mountain for $48,000 and changed American building forever. Soon, their ...
In 1941, two men dug into Arizona’s past and found a gold mine of history. Emil Haury, with his Harvard degree, teamed up with Julian Hayden, who learned archaeology in the field. They cut through 12 ...
Most steamboats in the 1800s died young – just four or five years before fires, explosions, or river snags claimed them. Not the City of Hawkinsville. Built in Georgia in 1886, this tough wooden ...
Moundville Archaeological Park hides a crime that went cold for decades. On March 6, 1980, thieves broke into the Erskine Ramsay Repository and took 264 Native American pottery vessels worth $1 ...
Count John Polereczky went from Hungarian nobility to Maine lighthouse keeper in one lifetime. Born in France, he fought for America as a Hussar during the Revolution, then settled in Dresden, Maine.