Puffing away on cigars, he wrote as many as 65 pages a ... says local historian Frances Dumas. Manufacturing and commercial wealth followed. Twain, as it happens, had married into one of the ...

At its peak, the industry produced upwards of 800,000 cigars annually ... more European-style wines in the 1970s. Pioneers from the very early days, not only is Calona Wines the oldest winery in BC ...

The 1970s gave us plenty of great country songs from some of the biggest names in the genre. From the slick production of the likes of Billy Sherrill and Owen Bradley to the rough-edged Outlaw ...

In 1977, with dozens of fires set daily and tourism in freefall, New York hired an artist to save the city. His infamous ...

and the crest of a 1970s-era broomball club from Ingersoll, Ont. "I had no idea what country it was from or if it was even real," he said. "I'd never heard of broomball." It turns out that ...

As funding for arts nonprofits gets eliminated by a hideous regime, arts events become more precious than ever. Vibrant ...

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Ernest P. Worrell is one of the most iconic comedy characters of the '80s and '90s portrayed by Jim Varney, who created the ...

Gijon, an Aaron program that Cohen debuted in 2007, created jungle-like scenes—distinct from the figures created by the previous version of the software, Aaron KCAT. Whitney Museum of American ...

However, President Richard Nixon banned the cultivation and sale of marijuana in the U.S. as part of his “war on drugs” campaign in 1970. It wasn’t until the Compassionate Use Act of 1996 ...

They've made over 20,000 commercials seen around the country. They are in 85 theaters right now, including as far away as Alaska. Since 2004, they've worked with over 350 movie theaters.

Some council members objected in particular to the mayor's plan to cut library and recreation center hours equally across the city and lobbied him to propose softer cuts in low-income areas.