Supporters of the French Revolution killed Louis XVI and his wife, Marie Antoinette, with the same apparatus used to execute common criminals ...

and it is no surprise to wise men that the guillotine, mass murder, and a megalomaniacal thug (Napoleon Bonaparte) arose out of it. Indeed, since 1789, France has had five different constitutions ...

The Heritage Museum is a 200-year-old building that tells the history of the infamous rum-running islands. Visitors can explore a classroom, a chapel, an operating room, a kitchen and many other ...

It began on July 14, 1789, when a vast army of ordinary people ... Our top YA books for August 2020 The dreaded guillotine, the perfect execution machine invented by Dr Guillotin, was set up ...

In the summer of 1789, James Madison ... led herself to the guillotine, drew the king on with her, and plunged the world into crimes and calamities which will forever stain the pages of modern ...

On July 2, 1789, a restive crowd had formed outside ... on unwarranted suspicion of reactionary activity. Slated for the guillotine on July 27, 1794, he was passed over, thanks to bribery or ...

This was the Revolution of 1789. On this 3-hour French Revolution walking tour ... You will visit several squares which played host to the horrific and infamous guillotine, and speak about its ...

William Hill Brown’s “The Power of Sympathy: or, The Triumph of Nature,” published in Boston. The work is widely considered to be the first American novel.

Peter Laviolette is no dope. He knows he's a goner or close to it, if you read the papers, especially The Post. Yeah, his Beloved Blueshirts might beat the odds and Panthers tonight in Sunrise but ...

On the afternoon of April 30, 1789, George Washington was sworn in as the first president of the United States. Since Washington took his oath of office, Inauguration Day has continued to be an ...