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Profile of the Day: Anne Hathaway

Image: Anne Hathaway / Wikimedia Commons On this day in 1582, William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway were married in Stratford-upon-Avon. Six months later, Hathaway gave birth…

11 Famous Mayflower Descendants

When the Mayflower arrived in the New World in 1620, it carried with it 102 passengers. The settlers established the Plymouth colony in what is…

Profile of the Day: Grace Darling

Today we remember Grace Darling, the daughter of an English lighthouse keeper, who helped rescue the survivors of the Forfarshire shipwreck in 1838. Image: Wikimedia Commons, Dallas…

The Sinking of the Steamship “Ville du Havre”

On November 22, 1873, a terrible collision between the French passenger steamship “Ville du Havre” and the British cargo sailing ship “Loch Earn” occurred in…

99 Years of Route 66!

November 11th, 2026 will mark the centenary of the creation of the United States System of Highways — the numbering of dozens of existing roads…