“Cupid and Co.” was most likely the firm of Joseph Mansell, a lace-paper and stationary company that manufactured large numbers of valentines between the 1840s and 1860s – and also just happened to ...

When his father was called to London again to be a clerk in the Naval Pay Office, the elder Dickens amassed so much debt that the entire family—except for Charles and his older sister Fanny ...

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Less than a week after he shared the inauguration stage with a senior Catholic cardinal, Vice President JD Vance picked a ...

The red, white and blue bunting is down, the flags are furled and the last of the fireworks have been sent aloft. And for far too many of us, that surge of patriotic fervor and effort found around ...

They’re venomous cannibals, hiding in our homes. With something like fifteen quadrillion spiders around, we can’t escape them ...

Dickens died at his house, Gad's Hill Place ... It was agreed that the grave should be left open, as by mid-morning reporters from all over London were clamouring to know when the funeral was to be ...

Charles Darwin University’s Confucius Institute is ushering in the Chinese Lunar New Year with an all day event at its city campus. Free read. The event, at the Danala Education and Community ...

When Michigan Football legend Charles ... year player’s performance with the Washington Commanders. Woodson didn’t hesitate to include Sainristil in the conversation of Michigan football’s ...

King Charles and Queen Camilla will travel to Italy and the Vatican in April to meet with Pope Francis, as the Catholic Church celebrates a special Jubilee year, which takes place every quarter of ...