King Verica is one of the central figures in early British history. Verica convinced the Roman emperor Claudius to launch an invasion, setting in motion the Roman Empire’s conquest of Britain. A pivotal king – except Verica was probably a queen.
SPRINGHILL, N.S. – One minute, Valarie Alderson was at her grandmother’s kitchen table. The next, her life and the lives of many others changed forever. “I was standing at the kitchen table, finishing my homework, and I felt the ground shake,” Alderson…
Sid Glennie remembers the ground shaking and seeing a mushroom cloud over the No. 4 mine in Springhill just after supper on Nov. 1, 1956. It was the second of three mine disasters to befall the Springhill mines and this one claimed 39 men.
April 1, 2026, 12:05 am CDT John D. Rockefeller was barely 20 when Edwin Drake struck oil in the Pennsylvania town of Titusville in 1859. Drake’s discovery produced an “oil rush” to the area not unlike California’s gold rush 10 years earlier; and Rockefeller, an ambitious bookkeeper…
AN Iron Age British king was actually female, reveals new research. The study shows Verica, who was central to the Roman Invasion of Britain in 43AD, was in fact a woman. Verica was ruler of the Atrebates, a tribe whose territory…
One of the 20 new interpretive signs along the Coal Mines Trail connecting the communities of Cle Elum, Roslyn and Ronald. The Roslyn Ronald Cle Elum Heritage Club said the new interpretive signs offer residents and visitors a deeper understanding of…
University of Arkansas students were invited to a lecture at J.B. Hunt Innovation Center of Excellence on Monday hosted by the Latin American and Latino Studies (LALS) program discussing the history of dynamite and its impact on Peru. Several Fulbright College…
Hyland Wilkinson and his son on the family ranch near McDermitt. Wilkinson’s family will be featured in a new documentary: “The Caldera: Life on the Lithium Frontier.” The film will be shown at the historic Rex Theater in downtown Vale…
Known as the Tri-Town or the Carbon Valley, these three growing suburban Denver cities are built atop an extensive, interconnected abandoned coal mine. According to the US Geological Survey, maps show abandoned room-and-pillar coal mines running 50 to 150 feet beneath the…
Alaska was a very different place before January 3, 1959, when it officially became the 49th state of the United States. Long before modern highways, bustling cities, and military installations transformed its landscape, Alaska was a vast frontier of fishing villages, gold-mining settlements,…
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