According to Professor Julie Coleman from the University of Leicester, crackers were invented by the Victorians in the 1840s and were once replete with sweets that would explode when the crackers ...

Of all the Manitou MT-X 1840 models listed 95.24% have been listed by professional machinery sellers, 4.76% by private businesses. There are currently 4 items for MT-X 1840 listed in Australia from 4 ...

A Liverpool pub, which hosted the debut UK performance of circus performer Tom Thumb in 1844, has reopened following a full refurbishment. Newington Temple has officially launched after an eight week ...

Their campaign for universal manhood suffrage, vote by secret ballot in elections and other democratic reforms of the parliamentary system, as demanded in the People’s Charter of ten years before, ...

Located on North Broadway in Saratoga Springs, one of the Capital Region’s most prestigious stretches, is this week’s selection: a historic mansion built in 1840 that is just a short walk to ...

The issue heated up last August when a record 128 people crowded in for the documentary film on the “Temecula Massacre,” an 1840s battle of the Mexican-American War. Dave Wilson, president of the ...

NO, NO, Known for its iconic yellow and red label, Pastene is a supermarket staple. Founded in the 1840s by Luigi Pastene in Boston’s North End, the company started as a produce wholesaler ...

Sometimes, slow and steady can win the race. Pfizer has been around in some form since the 1840s. It's one of the largest and oldest companies in the world, let alone the pharmaceutical industry.

But there is a first time for everything. It was 185 years ago that the first photograph of this scene was made on March 29, 1840. That Sunday at noon, with the cathedral bells ringing out ...

Named for French inventor Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, the daguerreotype was the world's first successful form of photography — and it captured historic images of everyone from Abraham Lincoln to ...