1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (1275+ words) Thomas Whitaker was just 18 when he was killed in an explosion in a trench just a month before the end of World War One. His body, and those of five other private soldiers, was not found until 2020 and only this…...

10+ min ago  (783+ words) But when did our globally dominant standard year counting actually start? What happened that made a random year into "year 1" for the whole world? And when did people begin dating events using this special counting system over all other previous,…...

1+ day, 4+ min ago  (344+ words) CANFIELD " Retired attorney Timothy R. Brookes of East Liverpool was the main speaker Thursday for a lecture centered around a Civil War soldier's diary. The focused individual for Brookes' talk was Jacob Shenkel, an East Liverpool man who joined the Pennsylvania…...

34+ min ago  (265+ words) The Daily News Online. com Some of the Betsies who created a 13-star, 13-stripe flag to commemorate America's 250th anniversary. The flag will lead off the Oatka Festival parade in July. A look at Le Roy's finished 13-star, 13-stripe flag that…...

14+ min ago  (291+ words) Aerial satellite view of the Toba caldera in Sumatra, Indonesia, site of the most powerful volcanic eruption in the last 2. 5 million years. (NASA Landsat/Public Domain) Excavations taking place at Pinnacle Point, South Africa, where evidence of continuous human occupation…...

1+ hour, 49+ min ago  (482+ words) Recent studies are revealing just how extensive that burial landscape was and how long it remained in use. A nine-step staircase buried near Egypt's Aga Khan Mausoleum has led archaeologists to an underground tomb containing a six-foot limestone sarcophagus covered…...

5+ hour, 17+ min ago  (813+ words) After entering the ring, Apollo switches into an Uncle Sam costume. "I want YOU!" he roars as he points to Rocky Balboa, the far less flamboyant palooka he's chosen for this bicentennial bout in Philadelphia. Then the two boxers pound…...

1+ day, 6+ min ago  (437+ words) The sudden death of the historian Gordon Wood, just weeks before the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, is one more mark of the closure of a golden age of the historiography of the Revolutionary era. It's…...

29+ min ago  (821+ words) It was a moneymaker for early Iowa. It had vacant rooms, no-nonsense staff galore, and a creative disregard for the niceties of law and order. It was the Fort Madison penitentiary, and in 1874, it was discovered by the U. S. Army. In…...

1+ hour, 28+ min ago  (271+ words) Northborough Woolen Company owner Ezra Wood Chapin with his horse NORTHBOROUGH " Who was the man behind the mills in the 19th-century textile manufacturing village of Chapinville in Northborough? Ezra Wood Chapin was born in Uxbridge on June 7, 1836, to father Caleb…...