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Author David Handy will be presenting the story of Captain Luther M. Wheeler on Wednesday, June 11, at 7 p.m. at Brookside ...
What do ancient historical texts and modern archaeological research reveal about the origin of the Greek alphabet?
A remarkable Titanic letter has just sold for nearly $400,000 at auction. The letter, written by Colonel Archibald Gracie, a ...
One student, 15-year-old Liam Ashton, who has been signing since he was five-years-old, taught me the alphabet in BSL. While ...
My sister and I recently unearthed a forgotten box of correspondence our mom received from servicemen she'd met at Red Cross ...
When Alf Monge, a former U.S. Army Cryptographer who was born in Norway and broke a Japanese code during WWII, looked at the ...
Old phone numbers in the U.S. had letters to denote the telephone exchange that handled any given number, a practice that ...
NNehring/istockphotoIn a world where our most precious memories live on fading paper or easily-shattered phones, preserving ...
A "prophetic" letter penned by Archibald Gracie IV aboard the doomed Titanic on April 10, 1912, has been sold at auction for ...
The auction house said the letter, written in neat, cursive handwriting, was addressed to an unidentified European ambassador, the great-uncle of the seller. The letterhead shows a triangular red ...
Christians in Israel have expressed outrage over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s handling of the death of Pope Francis, formally delivering a letter of ... in Jerusalem's Old City April ...