During the Jim Crow era, Black tourists to Maine found recreational spaces where they were welcomed, not shunned.
Sligo’s poet W. B. Yeats died on January 28th 1939, two days before Hitler’s famous Reichstag speech. The fascist rhetoric of the dictator’s speech on the annihilation of the Jews tragically ...
You had to catch a plane to Kangerlussuaq, a tiny town 320 kilometres away and the site of a former US Air Force base and, from there, fly in a hair-raising turboprop. Even the official visitor ...
France's natural beauty is complemented by striking architecture along the English Channel in this picturesque and scenic ...
On Feb. 15, 1898, the U.S. battleship Maine exploded in Havana harbor, killing 260 crewmen and leading to a U.S. declaration ...
Two months after the war ended, Confederate soldiers destroyed a fleet of Yankee ships, which were harvesting bowhead whales ...
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