Classic City NewsAug 184 minEmpires that charted the course of historyMuch of human history has been defined by the actions of around 50 to 70 empires that once ruled large swathes of people across vast...
Classic City NewsAug 152 minWhy did sailors wear bell-bottom pants?Bell-bottoms have long been synonymous with sailors in the U.S. Navy: Just picture Sailor Jack, the patriotic mascot who first appeared...
Classic City NewsAug 111 minHawaii is the first state to have 2 official languagesMost states don’t recognize any language as an official tongue. Yet Hawaii has officially recognized two state languages — English and...
Classic City NewsAug 105 minEdison had plans to make the statue talk and other things you mayn’t have known about Lady LibertyThomas Edison revolutionized the audio world in 1878 when he obtained a patent for his latest invention, the phonograph. The audio player...
Classic City NewsAug 106 minThings you might not have known about the Wild WestThe Wild West — sometimes called by the more subdued name of the Old West — is the star of many romanticized American stories. Tales of...
Classic City NewsAug 104 minSome interesting things about the Prohibition eraAs early as the colonial era, the consumption of alcoholic beverages was a contentious issue in America. Drunkenness was generally...
Classic City NewsAug 91 minToday in History: August 9, 1945 U.S. bombs Nagasaki376900 09: (FILE PHOTO) A dense column of smoke rises more than 60,000 feet into the air over the Japanese industrial port of Nagasaki,...
Classic City NewsAug 89 min39 baseball Hall of Famers served in World War IIThey don’t call it the Greatest Generation for nothing. Of the hundreds of ballplayers who have been inducted into the National Baseball...