The Squirrel Cage Jail is one of the strangest correctional designs in American history. Built in 1885, it used rotation instead of locks. This video explores how it worked and why it was eventually ...

The 1,885 members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) deployed to Adamawa State have commenced their orientation training. The training formally kicked off on Friday when the state government ...

JERICHO, Vt. (WCAX) - It was on January 15, 1885, when Vermont’s own Wilson “Snowflake” Bentley took his first successful microphoto of a single snowflake. He developed a process to catch the flakes ...

Modern infantrymen carry 80 to 120 pounds of combat gear depending on mission requirements. Night-vision devices and digital systems like ATAK have become fundamental to infantry operations. Plate ...

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A Wilmington woman discovered her great-great-grandfather, a former slave, purchased her property in 1885. The property has remained in the same family for five generations since its acquisition 20 ...

California Southern’s original station was in San Diego. This station was demolished and replaced in 1915 by what has come to be known as the Santa Fe Depot. (Photo via Wikipedia/public domain) On Nov ...

ATHENS — The Southeast Ohio History Center will host a presentation on the Hocking Valley Coal Strike at noon Nov. 13. Kellye Blosser — a writer, digital artist and board member at Little Cities of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Senegal's Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko, left, President Bassirou Diomaye Faye, centre, and the President of the Committee for the ...

French forces' 1944 massacre of African World War II troops demanding pay in Senegal was "premeditated" and "covered up", with previous death tolls vastly underestimated, according to a paper ...

On June 14, 1775, the Continental Congress called for 10 companies of expert riflemen to be organized and sent to Boston to assist the militia facing the British. This was the birth of the U.S. Army.

A romanticized 1975 depiction of Daniel Morgan's riflemen at the Battle of Bemis Heights in Saratoga, New York, on October 7, 1777 Public domain via Wikimedia Commons When Daniel Morgan’s company of ...