With the retirement of the USS Simpson, the two century old USS Constitution, is the only active US Navy ship to have sunk an enemy vessel. “Old Ironsides” sank several pirate ships in the First Barbary War and six British vessels in the War of 1812.
James Chilton is not one of the most famous passengers of the Mayflower. His name…
On June 29, 1841, a baby boy was born to the Pegram family in Richmond,…
While researching for my Bradford biography, I just came across a short poem about the…
Image by Jeff Nelson under CC BY-SA 2.0 I recently came across a snippet from…
Along the banks of the Shenandoah River, in the beautiful Page Valley near Luray, Virginia,…
One of Amsterdam's famous canals Nieuwe Kerk, on Amsterdam's central square, was built in the…
