A new exhibition at the Toledo Museum of Art puts 17th-century artist phenom Rachel Ruysch back in the spotlight.

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In 1828, thousands gathered in Bury St Edmunds to watch William Corder hang for the murder of Maria Marten, his lover, in a ...

Steven Preister's house in Washington, D.C. is a piece of American history, a gorgeous 110-year-old colonial with wooden ... baldness and tooth decay,” says Barbara Freese, author of Coal ...