Emma Willard and geologist Amos Eaton had an interesting relationship. DeWitt Clinton hired Eaton to survey territory for the ...

Eaton started renting the old Farmers Bank on River Street near Middleburgh in 1824, moved over to the Troy Academy on the site of the Troy Telegraph ... Vermont. In 1838, she became the head ...

The opera was based on the 1838 novel “The pasteur d’hommes,” which was later turned into the play “Le pasteur, ou L’evangile et le foyer” by the novelist Emile Souvestre and Eugene ...

Mark Carney claimed that Donald Trump wanted to “destroy our way of life” after being elected as Canada’s prime minister, replacing Justin Trudeau. The former Bank of England governor, who ...

Donald Trump has threatened to impose “unfairness” tariffs on other countries as he singled out the EU as being a “terrible abuser”. Suggesting that some of these tariffs could come within ...

When Coke was first invented it was only available as a fountain drink. Today, back in 1894, it was made available in bottles. Think of the significance of that decision! If someone hadn't had the ...

Bitcoin (BTC) was invented by a pseudonymous individual or group named Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008 and is the world’s first enduring cryptocurrency that succeeded where decades of digital cash ...

Lowell grew up near Smith’s Mill on the Skunk River. The mill was built in 1838 and there is a marker in Lowell to memorialize its history. Lowell was founded in 1840 and was originally called Smith’s ...

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In the eyes of Henry James, he was a ‘man of genius’; to Clive Bell he was perhaps the only English painter who ‘could conceive and effectively carry out a work of art’ ...