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Amy Lowell was 26, and not yet a poet but certainly a diva when she began her crusade to save the elegant...
In April 1913, 90-year-old Henry McHenry walked out of the Chelsea Old Soldiers Home, telling his friends he was going to town...
It didn’t rain during the 1948 World Series, which may be why the Boston Braves lost to the Cleveland Indians in their...
On June 1, 1908, John Albert Krohn dressed up in colonial garb and set out to win $1,000 by walking the U.S....