HISTORICAL items relating to the heritage port of Charlestown have been secured for the community following the closure of ...
The Minnesota Historical Society (MHS) today announced the recipients of the final round of Fast Track Grants for fiscal year 2011. Sixty-five organizations in 50 communities throughout Minnesota ...
There is a display about Gas at Charlestown Shipwreck Museum, because Murdoch's mother-in-law lived for a time in that port. Photo: Bernie Pettersen Comments are closed for this object What's this?
The town of Mdina played a huge role in Maltese history. Today, it's hugely popular for its walled Baroque splendor.
After two people died in a shipwreck at the ... the award-winning Museum at Portland Head Light and Gift Shop, filled with lighthouse information and displays, are open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m ...
In 1700, the English merchant slave ship Henrietta Marie sank 35 miles west of Key West, shortly after offloading 190 captured Africans in Jamaica. Nearly 325 years later, using the shipwreck and ...
SHI SHI BEACH, Olympic National Park — Celebrated beachcomber John Anderson slowly tilts forward while gulping mouthfuls of ...
The names of foreign places can be filled with an inexplicable magic, as all travellers know, even in an age when this magic ...
Charles Byrne, born in 1762, standing at approximately 7 feet, 5 inches tall was hailed as the tallest man in the world. He toured country fairs and village greens in Scotland and northern England ...
His Forks museum off U.S. 101 houses buckets of debris lost at sea, like the scores of Saki and Suntory whiskey bottles he ...
Recently the V&A Wedgwood Collection announced that it has acquired 60 contemporary Wedgwood creations in celebration of its 10th anniversary. Highlight acquisitions will go on show at the ...