Newspapers can yield much more than birth and marriage announcements and obituaries. Not every newspaper prints the same columns in every ...

In 1820 there was an outbreak of Yellow Fever in Savannah Georgia, taking over 700 lives, including two doctors that were tending to the s...

A Commission , or Royal Commission, is a formal public inquiry created by the government. A commission would be put together to look into...

No country has everything they need or would like, and there are records of Trade existing back to the 19th century BC.  As methods of tr...

The British Red Cross, Australian Red Cross, and the International Committee of the Red Cross have online databases. I pointed this out ...

I came across this website this past week - uboat  is a site where you will find all the German u-boats of both wars with their officers a...

The only fun thing for me about going to the dentist when I was young, was he would give me a bead of mercury in a small vial to take hom...

Repost.. See what is going on in your area for  International Women's Day and get involved. If you have an event, you can publish an...

Bagpipes were once used to call men to war, to encourage them to keep fighting and perhaps to help drown out the sounds of battle. ...

Many countries have an Official Gazette to publish notices. I have touched on the Gazette in other posts, but haven't really explaine...

Some of my fondest kid memories are of lying on the top bunk in my room at our cottage on a rainy day and listening to the rain on the roof...

Englishman Charles Worth was the first "fashion designer", with his house in Paris, France in 1858. Before that the textile i...

This is the time of year when parents pack up the car with kids, dogs, tents, sleeping bags and an assortment of camping paraphernalia and...

I was unable to research and write an article this week, but I leave you with this interesting book:  Pronunciation of Geographical na...

Spring is here for many of us. The risk of frost has past (hopefully, these days you never know) and thoughts are turning to sprucing up t...