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Hooray for those ‘Eight Is Enough’ girls! (1977)

It really is the year of the girls (finally!) and the five "Eight is Enough" young ladies have helped make that series a big hit!

Readers get love and relationship advice from Bette Davis (1942)

Lance Guest saves the day as the Last Starfighter (1984)

Hello Halloween! Party food & fun for teens (1963)

Max Headroom: 20 minutes into the future (1987)

Let’s Escape to Witch Mountain (1975)

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Victorian etiquette: 72 simple rules for men while at the dinner table (1889)

Walls with a fashion future! Vintage wallpaper samples from 1940

Vintage home exteriors: 18 colorfully-painted Victorian houses (1886)

Texas officers trap and kill notorious duo Bonnie & Clyde (1934)

5 Fisher-Price Little People play sets (1971-1980)

US Army shoulder insignia (1945)

Food & recipes: Tasty classic treats

This is our history

New super-locomotive train capable of 100 MPH (1937)

A 16-cylinder streamlined steam super-locomotive capable of whisking 14 standard Pullman cars along at a speed of 100 miles an hour on a level, straight track will make its appearance soon in the railroad world.

The Lewis and Clark Expedition, 100 years later (1905)

To Lewis and Clark belongs the credit for the discovery and exploration of The Oregon Country. They were the first white men, and excepting the narrowly ranging tribes of Indians, to traverse the country.

Watson and Crick discover and model the structure of DNA (1953)

The way life is carried on now seems near discovery By Watson Davis, Director, Science Service Washington -- One o... Read more...

Homes and gardens from days gone by

True crime

Chicago laughs at Al Capone pretending to be a gentleman (1929)

Police officers smiled broadly at reports from Florida that 'Scarface' Al Capone was assuming the attitude of the refined and genial American sportsman.

reenactment of St Valentine's Day massacre 1929 for jurors

Chicago gang kills six: The St Valentine’s Day Massacre (1929)

Two auto loads of gangsters shortly before noon today entered a North Side garage, lined eight men against a wall, and shot six of them to death. The remaining two were wounded, perhaps fatally.