On September 27, 1957, an underwater volcano began erupting near the Capelinhos lighthouse off Faial Island in the Azores. The volcanic event continued intermittently for
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On August 8, 1906, John Wesley Huddleston found an unusual pebble sparkling in the sunlight on his farm outside Murfreesboro, Arkansas. Huddleston picked it up
It’s been 161 years since the Battle of Gettysburg raged from July 1 to 3, 1863. It was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War,
In March of 1929, Forest H. Bixler walked into the office of The Akron Beacon Journal with an unusual request. Could the newspaper help him
The RMS Lusitania was a luxury ocean liner that sank off the coast of Ireland after being torpedoed by a German U-boat on the afternoon
On April 1, 1946, an 8.6-magnitude earthquake off the Aleutian Islands triggered a tsunami that raced at 500 mph across the Pacific and roared ashore
Have you ever visited Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina? Construction for the mansion with 255 rooms began in 1889. Biltmore remains the largest privately
From December 1811 through March 1812, three powerful earthquakes and more than two thousand aftershocks rocked New Madrid, Missouri, and the surrounding area. The quakes
On November 9, 1965, at 5:26 p.m. and during the height of rush hour, a power failure originating near Niagara Falls caused a catastrophic blackout
In 1861, a distraught mother had the body of her young son, a Civil War casualty, returned home to Jackson County, Indiana, for burial. Instead