“I have looked [in America] for an image of the essence of democracy, its inclinations, its personality, its prejudices, its passions,” Tocqueville concluded. “My wish has been to know it if only to ...

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Currencies & metals get whacked overnight on the Trump 2.0 victory. Yen and renminbi get the worse of the selling ...

Andrew is born in Scotland in 1835. After steam power makes his textile worker father ... With his old mentor Tom Scott’s help, Carnegie raises $21m in today’s money and builds his first steel plant.

Charles Darwin caught a glimmer of this on his first day exploring the Galapagos, in 1835. He noticed a network of trails up ... the Charles Darwin Foundation who was not involved with the paper. In ...

In 1835, a group of men led by a grazier from Tasmania, John Batman, met with Kulin leaders in an apparent attempt to lease – or purchase — an extraordinary area of land stretching from modern ...

The book, published by Stack's Bowers Galleries, explores the dynamics between currency and the Golden State's cultural, ...

I didn't recognize the music," curator Robinson McClellan told the paper. He was at first unsure ... that the music is from between 1830 and 1835, when Chopin was in his early 20s.

An unknown waltz by Chopin, written nearly 200 years ago, has been discovered in the vault of the Morgan Library and Museum ...

The Texas Rangers, an elite state law-enforcement agency that enjoys a legendary image in wider American culture, was formally proposed on this day in history, Oct. 17, 1835. "The Rangers are part ...