With the commotion about sinkholes on Route 80, it might be time to look closer into one of the mines in that area. This is ...

who were lifting extraordinarily large weights in the first strongman competitions of the 1800s. Often performing as part of circus entertainment, the powerlifters and strongmen of the time were ...

That figure equals 20 per cent of the men and 15 per cent of the women born at the end of the 1800s. The peak year of the great emigration was 1887, when more than 50,000 people left Sweden. Ever ...

Asel Tui's childhood on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea was coloured with tales of a legendary Russian explorer and scientist who sailed up to his village 150 years ago. But no one ever ...

It goes without saying that modern medicine would look very different if it hadn’t been for these 15 medical inventions and discoveries of the 1800s.

Mass production had been growing throughout the 19th century; by the late 1800s, most industries had moved from production by skilled craftspeople to mechanized production. Factory workers were ...