You may remember hearing about the “Merrimack” and the “Monitor”, two of the most famous Union ironclad warships from the Civil War. Union troops eventually…
On July 17, 1790, the US Congress announced that a swampy, muddy, mosquito-infested plot of land on the Potomac River would be the permanent US…
Queen Victoria’s Jewels The love story of Britain’s Queen Victoria and Prince Albert is certainly one for the ages. The couple married in 1840 and…