In 1860, a poor Yankee preacher named Dwight L. Moody met the Illinois rail-splitter, Abraham Lincoln, in a Chicago slum. Moody was...
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The Valentine has pleased and perturbed people since Charles, Duke of Orleans, sent one to his wife from the Tower of London...
In August of 1929, police in Chester, Vt., discovered the body of a young woman buried in a grove of spruce trees....
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New England is as unlikely a place as there is to celebrate a Christmas first. After all, Puritans in Massachusetts and Connecticut...
George Whitney had no use for the nasty greeting card known as the vinegar valentine. Whitney was the Valentine Czar of the...
Percy Spencer had only a fifth-grade education, but that didn’t stop him from earning patents crucial to winning World War II –...
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