The Corcoran Gallery of Art was adorned with the statues, commissioned in the late 1800s. But since then, they've changed ...

The pneumatic tire and the chain drive, followed by the development of gears, revolutionized bicycling in the later 1800s. In the last fifteen years, there has been a revolution of sorts in the ...

well-designed kills and boundless gallows humor. A testament to the powerful, simple joy of a well-executed setup and payoff, Bloodlines’ lethal Rube Goldberg machines are tactile and satisfying ...

Salem’s hugely profitable trade with the Orient transformed this hardscrabble New England seaport into a global powerhouse and, by the early 1800s, the wealthiest city per capita in the United ...

CACHE COUNTY – County officials here have announced the extended closure of 1800 West at Hyrum Dam for spillway repairs. That closure will begin on Monday, June 2 and is expected to continue until ...

LEELANAU COUNTY, MI -- Each summer visitors are transported back in time to the late 1800s and early 1900s when immigrants first settled along the shores of Lake Michigan. The farmlands that are ...

The gallows, where 15 penitentiary inmates were executed by hanging, were no longer there. That changed on Friday when the historical society unveiled a replica of the original gallows within the ...

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Visitors touring the former Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing, Kansas, can now see a replica of the gallows that were used to execute 15 penitentiary inmates. The original gallows were removed ...

It's bananas!" The authors are not alone in seeing the darkly humorous side – recent comedy TV series The Witchfinder tapped into the ridiculousness of witch-hunting with gallows humour.