The fur trade was based on the barter system and in the late 1700s a blanket was worth seven ... the beaver hat was no longer the height of fashion and the fur trade was in decline.

Front Royal, Virginia, offers scenic mountain views, outdoor adventures, and rich history in the heart of the Shenandoah ...

Given Italy is more famous for its coffee than its tea, you’ll be pleasantly surprised to find the range of tea offerings in ...

is a centuries-old technique that emerged in watches around the late 1700s. Now, Rolex has added this treatment to the dial of its platinum Perpetual 1908, named after the year that the house’s ...

The name Tourbillon originates from late 1700s watchmaking ... to go in a new direction that better integrates “modern ...

The club has held coursing at Ballybeggan Racecourse since the late 1700s Ballybeggan Racecourse. Photo Stephen Fernane. County Kerry Coursing Club is anxiously awaiting permission from the new ...

If you want to live inside a piece of history, this home for sale in Hillsdale might be for you. The Dutch Colonial was built in 1796 by Capt. John H. Banta who bought the land in 1755 and ...

The first European settler who reported wild turkeys in the Georgian Bay area was Recollet priest Gabriel Sagard in 1624. By ...

Pioneer Village at Governor Bebb MetroPark is set up as a small village with historic cabins, and it simulates what guests would have experienced in the 1700s and ... park in the late 1950s.

Around 1,700 prisoners are expected to be let out today before their sentences are served in a bid to cut overcrowding - on top of the 1,000 normally freed each week. Downing Street said the ...

“Collecting these 1,700 genomes now empowers scientists doing glacial work elsewhere to unlock the stories that are in these other ice freezers, so to speak.” In the present, the long ...

A wheelchair-bound man was shot in the head inside his apartment late Tuesday, according to North Las Vegas police. A suspect fled from the 9 p.m. incident on the 1700 block of Yale Street near ...