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From the Early Days of Baseball

Time: July 31, 1915Place: The Offices of The Saturday Evening PostRing Lardner’s most famous story, Alabi Ike is published. Today we print the

Page 4 of the return showing the income tax rates for 1862.Public domain form from the Tax History Project.The first income tax was adopted and

This is the story of Heracles and how driving his cattle started the whole thing.Translated by George C. Macaulay -- our special project

Cleopatra was an extraordinary person. At her death she was but thirty-eight years of age. Her power rested not so much on actual beauty as on her

Before the close of B.C. 32, Octavian, by the authority of the senate, declared war nominally against Cleopatra. Antony, roused from his sleep by

Here is a documentary about the legendary cowboys of the old west in America. It was uploaded just 36 days ago.From the latest happeningsin

by Jack Le MoineTime: 1915Place: Hollywood, CaliforniaThis film taught America 4 things: (1) people would line up for blocks to see a movie;

In its outlines, and barring supernatural incidents, the story of the Jews as unfolded in the Old Testament has stood the test of criticism and

April 8, 2015

For the next three years he surrendered himself absolutely to the will of the enchantress. To this period belong those tales of luxurious indulgence