Lansing is synonymous with Oldsmobile. But it's not common knowledge that the first plastic pocket protectors and gas lawn ...

What were the lumberjacks who descended on the Bemidji area in the late 1800s really like? A new book by Willa Hammitt Brown, to be released later this month by the University of Minnesota Press, ...

Many of the entries on this list are derived from the work of Henry Baker, who worked for the U.S. Patent Office between the late 1800s and early ... their invention or inventions was/were ...

Sales of chest-enhancing bras have plummeted, with current trends celebrating a more modest, often cleavage-less bust. But history tells us that women’s chests have always been a battleground, writes ...

Gillian Proctor, an associate lecturer and contouring specialist in the fashion department at DeMontfort University, tells me that the earliest size-enlarging bras can be traced to the late 1800s.

Historical and sociological perspectives reveal why certain societies or subgroups resist change, often rooted in cultural ...

Currently on the market with Adair Paxton, Newlaithes Manor offers its next inhabitants a comfortable and sympathetically ...