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In the 19th century, the shoreline from Williamsburg to Red Hook was full of ships and warehouses, and shipping was Brooklyn's biggest industry.
The steel industry has undergone numerous transformations over the centuries, but few innovations have had as profound an impact as the Bessemer Process. Developed in the mid-19th century, this ...
Nostalgia is the beating heart of the Trump movement. From fears of DEI displacing whites to the rise of so-called “trad ...
The longest-running continually held sporting event in the United States, the Kentucky Derby just put up its best TV ratings of the 21st century.
The main photograph this week was mystifying last month when it was part of CityKWiz in Flash from the Past. Thanks to some digging by Waterloo Region Generations researcher Darryl Bonk, I believe ...
The Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies International (CN-CSI) is pleased to announce a free and online one-day interdisciplinary workshop exploring the relationship between contagion and ...
A quaint 19th-century Cambridge house could be turned into a seven-person house of multiple occupancy (HMO). MATT Architecture Ltd proposes to turn Grafton House in Grafton Street, Cambridge ...
He wears an earring, his clothes seem to owe more to the 1980s New Romantic movement than 19th-Century costume, and from his affairs with women to his lack of deference to his so-called superiors ...
Scotland’s central belt – the area of highest population density, including Glasgow, Edinburgh and the towns surrounding them – became known as “Silicon Glen”, employing 50,000 people in the ...