After working city, county and state jobs in Buffalo, New York, Mohamed Abdullahi “Farmajo” Mohamed was elected president earlier this week
The late 1860s carte-de-visite comes from fellow abolitionist Emily Howland's album
A team of experts on fashion and social culture offer their take on Jane Austen's brooding hero
The Museum of London Docklands highlights 500 finds unearthed by the Crossrail Project
A Kenyan judge called the government's plan to close Dadaab "discriminatory"
In a bid to preserve circus culture, Illinois State University's Milner Library is making more than 300 circus route books available online
Miniature golf courses had been around before, but Garnet Carter gave it a roadside attraction spin
Parks Canada released 16 of the wooly ungulates in the national park in a pilot project to re-establish the species
It could be cave number 12
It’s all in the name of preservation
His final resting place is in disrepair, so fans of the tormented artist are pitching in to save it
When the Xerox 914 entered offices, the working world changed forever
In 1973, it was the longest space mission — 84 days in the stars. But at some point the astronauts just got fed up
Yesterday was Laura Ingalls Wilder's 150th birthday. It's time to take a critical look at her work
They’re itchy, formal—and part of centuries of tradition
Up to half a million citizens protested a new decree that would have diminished anti-corruption penalties
Thomas Andrews had argued for more lifeboats on the ship, but he was rebuffed on the grounds that it would ruin the view
He told Florentines the apocalypse was coming, and to save themselves through self-censorship
People have been using science on the Great Bambino since the 1920s
Some, but not all, of the hesitance to embrace vaccines can be traced back to this event more than 40 years ago
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