PITTSBURGH — Bouquet’s Blockhouse, a shelter for 18th-century soldiers being sniped at or overrun by warring tribes, survived Pontiac’s War and two revolutions -- the American and Industrial. It ...

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Karaoke offers a chance to live out such dreams. It started in Japan in the 1970s, and it might not have happened at all if, supposedly, a hired performer had not been a no-show one night at a bar.

Throughout history, New York City has played an important strategic role in many historic wars. The remnants of those conflicts can be found all over the five boroughs in the form of forts, cannons, ...

MUSKEGON--Conceived as a make-work project in the depths of the Great Depression, the blockhouse rose from the ashes after a gang of local youths burned it to the ground in 1962. Former Michigan state ...

The sleepy Free State town of Springfontein once bustled madly during the South African War. Railway lines from Cape Town, Gqeberha (then Port Elizabeth) and East London all met here on their way to ...

MUSKEGON COUNTY, MI -- After a four-month fundraising effort, plans to repair the vandalized Muskegon State Park Blockhouse have expanded. The Department of Natural Resources and the Winter Sports ...

In April 1945, LIFE magazine published one of the most memorable cover images of its four-decade run as a major photographic weekly. The picture, made in March 1945 on the island of Iwo Jima by W.

A planned visitor attraction showcasing Hull's Tudor history has been put "at risk" because of a funding shortfall, an MP has said. Construction work on the South Blockhouse was expected to begin in ...