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HBO’s The Gilded Age, which was created by Downton Abbey’s Julian Fellowes, has truly captured audiences season after season.
Freddie Highmore is in negotiations to star as Edgar Poe in 'Edgar & Augustine,' a detective period series from 'Lupin' ...
The Panopticon design involved a central watch tower, from which a single prison officer could observe the goings-on in the individual cell blocks that were ranged radially around the tower ...
Wool coats and 19th century hats: See costumes soldiers will wear at big Army parade Of the 7,000 soldiers from bases around the world that will appear in the parade, around a thousand will don ...
Early visions of Mars: Meet the 19th-century astronomer who used science fiction to imagine the red planet by Matthew Shindell, The Conversation edited by Lisa Lock, reviewed by Andrew Zinin ...
In a New York that still glowed amber-gold after dark from sodium streetlamps, the Tunnel nightclub distinguished itself for a seediness that appears, in retrospect, almost incredible. From 1986 to ...
A 19th-century farmhouse once tied to Montclair’s early apple trade is on the market near Edgemont Park. Built by the Harrison family on farmland that later gave rise to the Erwin Park ...
(CNN) - A rare 19th-century condom is going on display at a museum in the Netherlands. The Dutch National Museum in Amsterdam said it’s believed the condom was made from a sheep’s appendix ...
A rare 19th-century condom decorated with an erotic etching featuring a nun and three clergymen is going on display at a museum in the Netherlands.
The Rijksmuseum is presenting a rare 19th-century condom featuring a raunchy print in its new show "Safe Sex?" ...
There’s been a break in 30-year-old cold case mystery at the Jersey Shore after experts confirmed skeletal remains found on three beaches belonged to a 19th-century boat captain.