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The wealthy owners of Staatsburgh, a historic Gilded Age mansion outside New York City, had tickets for the Titanic's second ...

Saturday is 250th anniversary of the battles of Lexington and Concord. Fort Stanwix, in Rome, stands as a reminder of their ...

After being exploited for decades by France, Haiti ended up forking over huge sums of money to its former colonizer. Now, the ...