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Representative from Maryland elevated to cabinet secretary of the interior and then commerce secretary during the Nixon and Ford administr...

Statue at large enacted at the the end of July of the same year, the US National Security Act took effect on this day in 1947 after the s...

Renowned artist Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón, known for her numerous works of self-portraiture (Autorretrato) and murals execute...

Venerated on this day—which is also the national day of the Pyrenees condominium of Andorra—patron and protector Our Lady of Meritxell was...

Planning for a permanent US vice-presidential residence beginning in 1966 under the Johnson administration in order to economise on securi...

the free encyclopaedia : why Wikipedia works— see more   steeple with tyneham : 1970 reportage on the ghost village taken over by the Minist...

With two thousand invited guests in attendance in Westminster Abbey, the route through London lined with over a million and two-and-a-half-...

Mad-lib style, we discover, via Web Curios , this search engine that combines random adjectives and nouns and delivers a side-by-side co...

On this day in 1975, Manson Family cult member Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme ( previously ) attempted to assassinate US president Gerald Ford (...

Via Super Punch , we learn that the honest-to-goodness academic term for the kink that can sometimes occur in both naturally-occurring and m...

After exhumation and reinterment with honours befitting, the mortal remains of Richard III , the last English monarch killed in combat—on...

Formally convened as the above, the Dumbarton Oaks Conference, held at a historic estate in Georgetown—bequeathed to Harvard four years ...

tariff tango : Canada’s claymation response to Trump’s thirty-five percent levy on exports and other affronts  modulator-demodulator : a tri...

Launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome on this day in 1961, the Vostok 2 capsule carried aloft mission pilot Gherman Titov, who became the ...

The culmination of the five year effort which saw the passage of US Joint Resolution 23, begun on the centenary of the 1870 death Confederat...

Though not binding with status as a treaty to be ratified by national parliament, the attempted détente between the West and East was sig...

On this day, at some time after 15:00 local time, James “Jimmy” Riddle Hoffa, American labour activist and president of the International ...

Delving the depths of Wikipedia , we learn that in Dutch, with a much more contemporary and relatable mishearing than the seventeenth centu...

Premiering on this day in 1980, the Roger Corman production —capitalising on the success of Star Wars—the space opera featuring Robert V...

Via Boing Boing , we enjoyed this partial listing of superlative hour-glasses, including the pictured Sanduhr encountered on a museum tou...