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The orlop was a region of a ship under the lower decks well below the waterline, a place of darkness, seepage, clutter and mystery. Periodically, I will reveal here extraordinary, intriguing, and unexpected items from our storerooms that may surprise you with their diversity. My latest...

History & Culture Union Soldiers near Chattanooga, TN Library of Congress In north Georgia and south Tennessee, Union and Confederate armies clashed during the fall of 1863 in some of the hardest fighting of the Civil War. The prize was Chattanooga, a key rail center...

Mystic Seaport is proud to announce the release of its latest book, L. Francis Herreshoff: Yacht Designer by Roger C. Taylor. The book is the first of two volumes to chronicle the life and work of the most remarkable yacht designer of his time. Francis Herreshoff lived...

Just how far back in time does human achievement go in this country? We challenged ourselves to find out and in the process discovered everything from a prehistoric settlement near St. Louis to a pirate bar in New Orleans. By Justin Ocean, Friday, Jun 29, 2012, 9:00 AM  |  Subscribe...

Rim of Grand Canyon   Park NewspaperDownload the 2015 Autumn (English)September 8 - November 30, 2015Autumn South Rim Guide (letter-size)(Prints on 8.5 x 11" paper 1.7 MB PDF File)Autumn South Rim Guide...

As part of the commemoration of the 125th anniversary of Philadelphia's Chinatown in 1995, a plaque was affixed to the wall of the H.K. Golden Phoenix Restaurant at 913 Race Street, where the city's first Chinese laundry was established in 1870. It reads: "In commemoration of our forefathers,...

Topics Industry,PhiladelphiaThe J.G. Brill Company and its various incarnations dominated the world of trolley and undercarriage manufacturing for most of its seventy-year history. Based in Philadelphia, Brill was founded in 1868 by a German immigrant and held in family hands well...