16+ min ago   (368+ words) The George Museum is inviting members of the public to bring those stories to life during a special Heritage Month “Show & Tell” event on Saturday 19 September. It forms part of celebrating 50 years of the George Museum in its current home....

1+ hour, 39+ min ago   (226+ words) Did you notice the date in the title above? RARELY have articles appearing in this column included a date as early as 1849. Dan Moyer, a regular contributor to the “Historical Group of Lancaster/Fairfield County” on Facebook, had seen this…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (685+ words) The famed pinniped is believed to be the only seal daredevil to survive a plunge over the Canadian falls, Brian Narhi writes. Jeff the seal escaped from Marineland and was spotted by teenager Tommy Haines on the edge of the…...

2+ hour ago   (546+ words) The wreckage is surveyed in 1951. (Image: CT.) A young Llanidloes farm worker who had left the RAF only a week earlier became an unlikely hero when he pulled a stranded airman from a flooded river after a Wellington bomber crashed…...

1+ hour, 44+ min ago   (823+ words) Just across from Polo Park, a small wooden church offers a glimpse into a much older Winnipeg and the city's early Anglican history. Built in 1853, the Heritage Church at St. James is considered the oldest surviving wooden church of its…...

5+ hour, 48+ min ago   (627+ words) An ancient Bronze Age axe believed to have been offered to the gods has been unearthed. It was found during an archaeological dig in Huttons Ambo, a village in North Yorkshire, as part of a broader excavation that also revealed…...

5+ hour, 37+ min ago   (501+ words) Peterborough City Council says Flag Fen is a "globally significant" Bronze Age site An excavation project at a Bronze Age site could see the area removed from a register of at-risk historical locations, the government has said. Ancient remains at…...

3+ hour, 45+ min ago   (373+ words) By Ablahad Hanna Saka | Member of the Bethnahrin National Council in Iraq Through research, investigation and the collection of accounts and information, it became clear that a large number of Syriac and Armenian families lived in the center of Sinjar…...

12+ hour, 56+ min ago   (1795+ words) Drawing on his background as a teacher and historian, Don Teator said he wants people to learn something from the 2027 calendars on Greenville area barns. Don Teator has lived his entire life in what he playfully calls “the center of…...

6+ hour, 48+ min ago   (813+ words) There are some businesses with such a sense of place that you think of them less for the service they provide and more for the experience of being there. Usually, they’re resorts, restaurants or spas. On Snead Island, it’s a…...