PITTSBURGH — Bouquet’s Blockhouse, a shelter for 18th-century soldiers being sniped at or overrun by warring tribes, survived Pontiac’s War and two revolutions -- the American and Industrial. It ...

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Karaoke offers a chance to live out such dreams. It started in Japan in the 1970s, and it might not have happened at all if, supposedly, a hired performer had not been a no-show one night at a bar.

The sleepy Free State town of Springfontein once bustled madly during the South African War. Railway lines from Cape Town, Gqeberha (then Port Elizabeth) and East London all met here on their way to ...

MUSKEGON, Mich. (WZZM) -- Spray paint and flames from an arsonist -- those are the two biggest problems at a historic site in Muskegon County. It sits on the county's highest elevation, just around a ...

A visitor attraction on the site of a former castle will go ahead after a council agreed to plug a funding gap. Under plans, ...

Inside a wooden tar-paper shack, technicians manning a crude control panel with dials and switches sent Cape Canaveral's first rocket — Bumper 8 — soaring skyward over the Atlantic Ocean on July 24, ...

A planned visitor attraction showcasing Hull's Tudor history has been put "at risk" because of a funding shortfall, an MP has said. Construction work on the South Blockhouse was expected to begin in ...

A dig at a 16th Century blockhouse commissioned by Henry VIII for the city of Hull's defences has uncovered the original floor levels from the 1540s. Ken Steedman, of Humber Field Archaeology (HFA), ...

United States Marines (foreground) blow up a cave connected to a Japanese blockhouse on Iwo Jima, 1945. United States Marines (foreground) blow up a cave connected to a Japanese blockhouse on Iwo Jima ...