How to make these lion and elephant quilted comforters (1972)
Wild bedtime! Lion and elephant quilted comforters
Our comical quilts can turn a youngster's bedtime from hassle to heyday!
Materials needed
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Whites have no reason to be surprised by civil rights movement (1968)
Charlton Heston, James Baldwin, Marlon Brando and Harry Belfonte join in the movement - Civil Rights March Washington DC
Editor's note: This arti... Read more...
Liner Titanic strikes iceberg, sinking head down (1912)
Thousands in dire peril on the Atlantic
Largest vessel afloat reported sinking head down; women put off in boats
Wireless call for help responded to... Read more...
Lizzie Borden & the infamous axe murders (1892)
Here's a news story about the Lizzie Borden double murder from just 5 days after the killings. Soon, this sensationally dramatic tale would rivet the nation.
WWII newspaper headlines from the D-Day invasion of France (1944)
France Invaded: Allied Troops Launch Mighty Offensive
Philadelphia Inquirer (Final) - June 6, 1944
We Crack West Wall, Secure Big Beac... Read more...
A look back at Richard Nixon’s presidency & the Watergate scandal (1974)
Portrait of a Presidency
By Peter Jenkins
"...Nixon's questions about Watergate -- 'How could it have happened? Who is to blame?' -- must be ask... Read more...
Racism in America: The Kerner Report (1968)
In the early morning hours of July 23, 1967, police in Detroit raided an unlicensed, after-hours bar in what they assumed was just another routine... Read more...
The Great Depression: Newspaper headlines from the stock market crash (1929)
While the newspapers reported on the stock market crash on October 29 and October 30, 1929, it's clear that they didn't know what was in store for... Read more...
Hula hoopers are whooping it up (1958)
Hula hoopers are whooping it up!
How agile are you? The hula hoop, latest toy to send everyone into a spin, has hit the Steubenville area with a (p... Read more...
Follow-up: Titanic survivor Charlotte Collyer (1912)
Response from Charlotte Collyer, survivor of the Titanic
Mrs Charlotte Collyer's article, "How I Was Saved from the Titanic," printed seven weeks ago... Read more...
President Lincoln’s funeral (1865)
Remains of President Lincoln in Chicago
Yesterday was a marked day in the history of Chicago -- a day long to be remembered by the hundreds of th... Read more...
The Russians’ big obsession: You! (1958)
The Russians' big obsession: You!
By John Fell Stevenson
A sign in a chicken coop, a talk with a Red rock 'n' roller, Khrushchev reading a U.S. p... Read more...
Amelia Earhart feared lost (1937)
AMELIA FEARED LOST
Navy ships ordered to begin hunt
Plane over 2500-mile Pacific waste
Island is goal
Tiny spot in Pacific to be landing s... Read more...
King Tut’s coffin is uncovered (1923)
Tut's coffin is uncovered
Resplendent shrine upsets Egyptian theories
Luxor, Egypt, December 17, 1923 - All preconceived ideas of Tutenkhamun's ... Read more...
The woman who invented the dishwasher (1892)
The inventor of a dishwashing machine
The patron saint of the emancipated woman of the future will be Josephine Garis Cochrane, the inventor of t... Read more...
Abraham Lincoln’s campaign materials (1860)
Abraham Lincoln: Republican candidate for President of the United States - 1860
Description from the US Library of Congress: "A print for a l... Read more...
Artificial daylight made by Tesla (1899)
The promise made by Nikola Tesla to the world some two years ago that he would soon give it a means of lighting its homes, its offices and its streets at night time by “artificial daylight” has been fulfilled.
Scientists agree: Martians are a super-race (1920)
Though it reads like science fiction or an April Fool's prank, this story was presented as news -- and published on the front page of the Sunday New Y... Read more...
The original Constitution of the United States (1787)
Drafted in secret by delegates to the Constitutional Convention during the summer of 1787, this four-page document, signed on September 17, 1787, esta... Read more...
All aboard for the moon! (1908)
All aboard for the moon!
The conquest of the air is assured now for interplanetary space
Click here to see a larger version
In a recent number of... Read more...
1,492 go down to their death in loss of Titanic (1912)
1,492 go down to their death in loss of "world's greatest liner"
Woman and children saved; men stay to die; pitiful scenes as news is awaited; worl... Read more...
Our national museum: The Smithsonian (1897)
Our national museum
Better known to the public as the Smithsonian Institution
Founded with funds left to the United States by James Smithson, an E... Read more...
The metric system is the way of the future (1900)
We thought the metric system was just something pitched to -- and largely ignored by -- recent generations of schoolchildren. Wrong! It's actually bee... Read more...
Buddy Holly & three others killed in air crash (1959)
Lubbock rock 'n' roll star killed
Buddy Holly, three others in air crash
Ritchie Valens, J P Richardson, Pilot Also Dead
Buddy Holly, 22-year... Read more...
King Tut’s tomb in no-man’s land (1924)
King Tut's tomb in no-man's land
Howard Carter holds keys while Egyptian guards surround ancient sepulchre
Luxor, Feb. 16, 1924 -- The situation... Read more...
Where the telephone was born (1875)
In 1875, on the top floor of this building at 109 Court Street in Boston, Massachusetts, Professor Alexander Graham Bell invented and experimented... Read more...
