This January, we asked our WGN Radio readers to reflect upon favorite books from 2024 and share what they’re reading now.

A century and a half later, the sinking of the S.S. Pacific remains one of the deadliest maritime disasters in the region’s ...

The collection includes more than 800 specimens collected by botanists Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander on Captain Cook’s first voyage to the Pacific in 1770. The digitisation process also ...

“You are,” Smith says as I stare at the newly exposed bright filigree of the Viking sword found in a river I have spent a lifetime crossing, “only the sixth person to see this decoration since the ...

The Civil War Voyage of David Henry White” tells the tale of a free Black man captured during one of the Alabama’s many raids ...

Memorial and honor books at the Patterson Library in Westfield for Aug. 1 to Dec. 31:Cupcakes everywhere One sweet tale of overcoming infertility by Erin Sarris was given by Nadine Stacy Chamber ...

Whitby has a deep heritage which spans more than a thousand years that inspired Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula - here is its history ahead of the Yorkshire town’s annual event Whitby Steampunk Weekend.

The Leeuwin Ocean Adventure Foundation, a registered Western Australian charity driven by a dedicated team of staff and ...

As HMCS Margaret Brooke left the dock in Halifax for a four-month voyage to South America and ... to Leading Sailor Anthony Logan, one of the cooks aboard the departing ship.

It was the culmination of a long-awaited dream and a cause for great celebration when, on November 4, 1953, Port Canaveral officially was dedicated. [...] ...

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