With that news her life had been abruptly, irrevocably altered. Come
Once built, the Montauk was so novel, so tall, it defied description by conventional means. No one knows who coined the term, but it fit, and the Montauk became the first building to be called a skysc...
No one cared what St. Louis thought, although the city got a wink for pluck.
Intended to sound the alarm and raise England’s level of naval preparedness, the story was entertaining, and frightening, but was widely deemed too far-fetched to be believable, for Captain Sirius’s b...
He disliked the social obligations of the captaincy.
General Electric rather miraculously came back with a bid of $554,000. But Westinghouse, whose AC system was inherently cheaper and more efficient, bid $399,000. The exposition went with Westinghouse,...
Five months after the disaster, Charles Lauriat wrote a book about his experience, entitled The Lusitania’s Last Voyage
British currency was configured in pounds, shillings, and pence. One pound equaled twenty shillings, written as 20 s., which in turn equaled 240 pence, or 240 d. A new pound is equal to 100 pennies, w...
It is less important where one lives than how one lives.
The president of the United States, Benjamin Harrison, attended its grand opening.
So every night, he said, I slept with a torpedo and a puppy.
Schultz told stories of violence against Jews, communists, and anyone the Nazis saw as unsympathetic to their revolution. In some cases the victims had been American citizens. Martha countered that Ge...
Recalling his first impression of Hitler, Hanfstaengl wrote, Hitler looked like a suburban hairdresser on his day off.
One portion of the lakefront, named Burnham Park in his honor, contains Soldier Field and the Field Museum, which he designed.
It was this big talk, not the persistent southwesterly breeze, that had prompted New York editor Charles Anderson Dana to nickname Chicago the Windy City.
It was so easy to disappear, so easy to deny knowledge, so very easy in the smoke and din to mask that something dark had taken root. This was Chicago, on the eve of the greatest fair in history.
His weakness was his belief that evil had boundaries.
Here she joined the universal struggle shared by men and women throughout time, to temper rejection so as not to lose a friend forever.
Coordination' occurred with astonishing speed, even in sectors of life not directly targeted by specific laws, as Germans willingly placed themselves under the sway of Nazi rule, a phenomenon that bec...
But things were changing. Everywhere one looked the boundary between the moral and the wicked seemed to be degrading. Elizabeth Cady Stanton argued in favor of divorce. Clarence Darrow advocated free...