On January 21, 1793, King Louis XVI of France was executed by guillotine in Paris, a moment that changed the course of the French Revolution and sent shockwave ...

On Jan. 21, 2020, the U.S. reported its first known case of the 2019 novel coronavirus circulating in China, saying a ...

1793 King Louis XVI of France is executed by the guillotine in Paris, following his conviction for high treason during the ...

On my first visit to the Chateau of Versailles, the magnificent former residence of French royalty with some 2300 art-filled rooms, it is as packed as the Louvre at peak hour. Like many clueless ...

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Before she was sent to the guillotine in 1793, 37-year-old Marie Antoinette couldn’t have imagined that more than two centuries later, she’d still be one of the most famous women in the world.

In 1789, William Hill Brown’s “The Power of Sympathy: or, The Triumph of Nature,” published in Boston. The work is widely considered to be the first American novel.

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As many as four vervet monkeys were spotted in a neighborhood in North St. Louis on Thursday, city officials said. No one knows how they got there. By Rylee Kirk An unknown number of monkeys — as many ...

After weeks of heated Cabinet debates, immortalized in part by the Broadway musical Hamilton, which wryly captures one resolution with the line, “It must be nice, it must be nice, To have Washington ...

Flesh filled puppets in a mishapen hotel. No windows, no exterior. Follow different characters' intertiwining paths and unearth forgotten events from a time long gone. Bring the ceremony to a halt.