A Century Ago

History of ORL A century ago, the birth of the decibel

This historical note recounts the keypoints in the life of its creator, the Scottish engineer, American citizen and lover of Canada, Alexander Graham Bell.

The More Things Change...Orange County a Century Ago - Fullerton ...

I learned many fascinating things from these dusty pages about what was happening in the world, in America, in Orange County, and in Fullerton a century ago.

A warning from a century ago: Resist criminalizing thought, speech ...

By Christopher B. Daly Below is a piece I wrote for the Made in History section of The Washington Post. (The original had a different ...

Where Myrtle Beach Golf Began Nearly a Century Ago

Once known at Pine Lakes International and affectionately called "The Granddaddy," the course and its restored clubhouse are credited to Robert White, the first ...

In Photos: The Story of the Liberation of Jerusalem a Century Ago

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Jerusalem's unification in the Six-Day War. It also marks the 100th anniversary of a fierce World War I battle that ...

Children killed more than a century ago receive donated headstone ...

The three Mund children, who were killed by their mother in Buffalo more than a century ago, now have a proper headstone at their previously ...

In Pursuit of Great Coffee — A Century Ago

Recipes from the 1800s and early 1900s call for strange things like eggshells, fish skin, and something called isinglass.

Mathematics helped Britain to get in touch with continental Europe a ...

100 years ago. The new Anglo-Dutch telephone cable which connects Domburg ... with Aldeburgh has been successfully laid … [E]ach of the sixteen ...

Wolverines vanished from California a century ago. Is it time to bring ...

Wolverines could be poised for a comeback in California. A new bill seeks to reintroduce the solitary, muscular carnivores to the state's ...

50 years ago in Expo history: Even half a century ago, clean air was ...

It was Clean Air Festival Day at Expo '74, in keeping with the fair's environmental theme. The president-elect of the American Lung Association was on hand to ...

A century ago, Alexander Friedmann envisioned the universe's ...

Alexander Friedmann composed a paper, based on Einstein's general theory of relativity, that outlined multiple possible histories of the universe.

Physiological differences between wild and captive animals

For example, almost a century ago R. F. Gause published a seminal paper in Journal of Experimental Biology that used clever lab experiments ...

Memories From Half A Century Ago; The Cincinnati Tornadoes of ...

Greg Hand looks back on his encounter with the supertornadoes that ravaged the city 50 years ago.

Family suing for treasures back from Louisiana state museum

Collector lent Louisiana his treasures a century ago. Now his descendants want it all back. Gaspar Cusachs was devoted to the state museum ...

1923: Quilts A Century Ago

See what quilters were doing in 1923. It was the Jazz Age, five years after the end of World War I and quilts were being made from the available fabrics.

Too much of a food thing: A century of change in how we eat

"Those are questions that would have perplexed our ancestors a century ago," Albala said. American Heart Association News Stories. American ...

Compared to us, people who lived a century ago had very - LSAT ...

#4 - Compared to us, people who lived a century ago had very ... I'm having some trouble finding an adequate reason why C is wrong other than that ...

The KKK ruled Denver a century ago. Here's how the hate group's ...

Ripple effects of the Klan's takeover of Denver's power structures over the course of just a few years in the mid-1920s are still felt.

How Toronto schools adapted to a health crisis a century ago: open ...

Medical wisdom held that sunshine and fresh air could aid in the fight against tuberculosis. So, in 1912, the city opened its first forest ...

A Century Ago Woodrow Wilson Took America into WWI: Blame Him ...

A Century Ago Woodrow Wilson Took America into WWI: Blame Him for Communism, Fascism and Nazism. Washington's entry was a disaster for the U.S., ...