Learn about the Great Blizzard of 1888, one of the fiercest East Coast storms ever recorded. As railroads drove western expansion, Buffalo Bill brought Wild West shows back east, hiring displaced ...

More recent still are the Italians, beginning with a modest 20,000 in 1876, rising to over 200,000 arrivals in 1888, and constituting ... it approaches on-half (42 per cent).

Engineer and developer of the first successful commercial steamboat. Jacob Abbott (1803-1879) - Children's author who was ...

Its principal object is to prevent grocers who sell milk from charging less than the regular price of all, the milkmen, which is now 8 cents per quart. The grocers at present charge 5 cents ...

More than 4,000 subscribers ultimately contributed, including a small boy who gave 12 cents. In 1846, the "school preparatory ... president of the University from 1879 to 1888: "We need in ...

You might be surprised when certain cocktails were invented. Here's a list of some of the world's oldest (and most popular) ...

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Opinion polls predicted a neck-and-neck contest in the unpredictable seven swing states..US presidential election 2024.

In 1888, Brazil, with a mostly black and mixed ... The 2000 Census reveals that about 40 per cent of the national population is considered brown or mixed race, while 5 per cent are black and ...

His responsibility covers more than half a billion dollars' worth of new ... where his son Robert Moses was born on December 18, 1888. Robert's mother, Isabella, was the daughter of Bernard ...

It was supposed to be close. On the eve of election day, Donald Trump was up just 0.1 per cent in the RealClearPolitics ...

In Australia’s big cities, we tend to take our water for granted. How does it get to us – and could we ever run out?