News Source: Dubuque Telgraph Herald
| 3 months ago
Polk signed a measure establishing the Smithsonian Institution, named after English scientist James Smithson, whose bequest of a half-million dollars had made it possible. * In 1792, during the French Revolution, mobs in Paris attacked the Tuileries
News Source: Denver Post
| 8 months ago
A remake of the '60s sitcom "My Mother the Car"? (A driver hearing advice from his mom-reincarnated-as- wheels wouldn't seem so weird now. Cars already talk to us.) Maybe TV will take another crack at that '90s musical- drama bomb "Cop Rock." (Call
News Source: Washington Post
| about 1 year ago
In 1792, during the French Revolution, mobs in Paris attacked the Tuileries Palace, where King Louis XVI resided. (The king was later arrested, put on trial for treason, and executed the following January.) In 1821, Missouri became the 24th state.