Sister Inah Canabarro, a Brazilian woman who was the world’s oldest person, died on Wednesday at nearly 117. The Company of Saint Teresa of Jesus, a Teresian nun congregation, said Canabarro died at ...

Ararat, a settlement dreamed up in the 1800s, was meant to offer a refuge to Jews. But after an ornate ceremony, plans never ...

HGTV star Tarek El Moussa is best known for flipping homes in pricey California since debuting on the network with “Flip or ...

According to the research in the books compiled by the Massachusetts Historical Commission and Archives, the house at 340 ...

Is no one interested in understanding the dynamics of airborne infection?” Explore the history of airborne contagion and the ...

John Spoto has ‘replaced, stripped, refinished or repainted' everything at 6782 East Lake Road on Owasco Lake.

The royal leader of the Kingdom of Benin sought the return of artifacts displayed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The ...

Jeff Shriver had wanted his family’s farm outside Rochester to be recognized for being owned by the family since 1864.

I had been interested in the supernatural and spiritual history of the landscape for a long time but I thought it was too ...

Mary Liz Stewart, who founded the Underground Railroad center with her husband, Paul, in the 1990s, said the idea for the museum project came when she was looking for quotes by Black Americans for a ...

Prom season marks the rite of passage that teens have celebrated since the late 19th century – but that one special night ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The great-great-grandson of 19th-century British Prime Minister William Gladstone said he was horrified to learn seven years ago that his ancestors were slave owners in Jamaica ...