Historical Planet

Silent guns sending their whistling messengers of death into the sky at speeds far beyond those now attained by powder-driven shells seem ...

The Octavius was a legendary 18th-century ghost ship. The story goes that it was discovered off the coast of Greenland in 1775. Initially...

Pontiac was an Ottawa chief, born on the Ottawa River, in Canada, about 1720. While yet a young man he became the principal chief of the ...

 

Henry Dangerfield, was a kinsman of Gov. Holmes, came to the Mississippi territory after the latter's appointment, and was appointed sec...

 SHERMAN’S ARMY WAGONS GOING THROUGH ZANESVILLE IN 1865

George Hendrick Houghton was American Protestant Episcopal clergyman: b. Deerfield, Mass., 1820; d. 1897. He was graduated at New York Unive...

Grenada Collegiate Institute. This institution is located in the city of Grenada and is a private secondary school for girls, owned by the M...

 

 

 

Robert Wilson Patterson .D., LL.D., clergyman, was born in Blount County, Tenn., Jan. 21, 1814; came to Bond County, Ill., with his parents ...

 

BARD OF TOWER HALL”—Pen-name of Lewis Dela, who was a clothing salesman in the store of Colonel Joseph M. Bennett at 518 Market Street, whic...

  Simo Häyhä was a Finnish farmer who took part in hunting and target practice from a young age. In 1939, the Soviet Union invaded Finland. ...