The mean of the previous seventeen Summers is 13.86 inches, so that the quantity in 1862 is about 132 per cent. above the mean, or nearly 2 1/3 times the average. This is certainly a very ...

The US federal government is the nation's largest landlord and still owns 28 percent of the land in the US. The time has come ...

From a federation of 22 independent states, the newly established Swiss federal state creates a unitary economic area with a single currency, an indispensable precondition for the development of the ...

In the Great Locomotive Chase of 1862, Union volunteers attempted to commandeer ... (These Gettysburg maps reveal how the South lost the fight.) Andrews had just returned from the South after ...

Replete with detailed engravings, this four-volume catalogue was published to accompany the International Exhibition of 1862. Held in South Kensington from May to November, the exhibition showcased ...

Casey Cep on Ronald E. Walters of the National Cemetery Administration.

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