A giant Norway spruce that will serve as this year's Rockefeller Center Christmas tree is en route to New York City from its ...

At statehood, California was not a part of the East Coast circus circuits. Yet the first circus west of the Mississippi was ...

The Muskie Archives is bringing out its copy of James Audubon’s Birds of America for display in the lobby of Ladd Library.

NEW-YORK HOSPITAL. -- Weekly report to Nov. 2, 1860: Surgical. Medical. Total. Remaining on Oct. 26.....184 113 297 Admitted to Nov. 2.....25 36 61 Discharged, cured or relieved..

This remote mountain town has had its ups and downs. In recent years famous races put it on the map, but some knew of its ...

Speaker of Lok Sabha, Om Birla on Saturday inaugurated the 4th Audit Diwas celebrations and highlighted India expertise in public sector auditing, particularl ...

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has arrested two Bangladeshi nationals and one Indian from Kolkata in connection with ...

There’s a robust Wikipedia page for “Rats in New York City” whose section headings ... Gnawed by Vermin” at Bellevue Hospital back in 1860. “In the female wards the rats in the night ...

An 1851 New York City ordinance prohibited full-body burials south of 86th Street unless the individual was to be placed in part of a family crypt. William E. Burton’s burial in 1860 was the last ...

Today in History for Nov. 9 ...

Today, presidential and congressional elections saturate mass media as television, the internet and junk mail pound candidates into voters’ psyche. It’s no wonder many people express relief when the ...