Photo: Monroe County Police Department/Public Domain Wikimedia Commons Although moving pictures were a viable medium from the early 1900s, law enforcement agencies didn't use the technology for criminal investigative purposes until the 1960s. At that time, film cameras were large and bulky and rel...
Mary Ann Evans, or Marian as she was called, was born (1819) and spent her childhood in Shakespeare’s county of Warwickshire. Her father (whose portrait she has faintly drawn in the characters of Adam Bede and Caleb Garth) was a strong, quiet man, a farmer and land agent, who made ...
Oakland's preservation rules require developers to make older buildings that are not officially deemed historic available for free, or almost free, to buyers who can move them. Last March, for example, two 1900-era homes on Brook Street in Oakland were selling for $1 each as long as the ...
House of Commons membership changeMembership change, by county, in the House of Commons as a result of the Reform Act of 1832 (England only). Whig interest in parliamentary reform went back to the 18th century, and Grey himself provided a link between two separate periods of public agitation...