George Washington was uneasy about the idea of publicly celebrating his life. He was the first leader of a new republic, not ...

Between the 16th and 19th centuries, as many as a thousand slave ships carrying captive Africans sank while crossing the Atlantic Ocean. National Geographic explorer and writer Tara Roberts has been ...

One of the world's biggest and oldest video games tackles no less thorny a subject than all of recorded history. The designers of "Civilization 7," out Tuesday, discuss the dramatic changes they’ve ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Long before the current political divide over climate change, and even before the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865), an American scientist named Eunice Foote documented the underlying ...

Benefiting from Dyson's over-engineering, this refurbished air filter fan pulls pollutants out of your environment while ...

Among the millions of World War II veterans were multiple future U.S. presidents. Some only narrowly survived the experience.

The iconic landscape of Yellowstone National Park has witnessed an increase in forest cover, thanks to this wild animal.

Eduard Bloch was born January 30th, 1872 in Frauenburg - a small village in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic - to a Jewish family who were described as being comfortable, but not ...

Attorney Tom O'Brien, who's been a behind-the-scenes force at berry giant Driscoll's for a quarter-century, first as outside ...

An opera about the Underground Railroad has interesting ties to Lexington and one of its greatest basketball players.

Comedian Jeff Dunham returns for the nth time, local icon Bobby Floyd does a concert series, the Peking Acrobats defy gravity ...

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