In 2026, 48 teams take part in the World Cup -- 45 qualifying nations plus the three host countries. It's been confirmed that, as hosts, United States, Mexico and Canada won't have to go through the North, Central America and Caribbean (CONCACAF) qualifying competition....
Company stores were not part of the “Waltham System” of large mills in urban areas, but were necessary in the isolated rural river valleys of southeastern New England. Samuel Slater, who had established the first successful cotton mill in the country in 1790, had himself built what was the...
There have been plenty of changes to the old Oakdale Mall as part of its transformation into the Oakdale Commons - but some big announcements about the site are coming. A 99,000-square-foot BJ's Wholesale Club opened its doors a few days ago. The 140,000-square-foot Dick's House of ...
Such as this attack on a Jewish club in Baghdad in 1938: By the mid 1930s, Nazi ideology was widely spreading through Iraq (and much of the MENA region). The idea that Israel, which at the time was overrun with refugees flooding into the country, would be agitating for more makes no ...
In the history of soccer, only six countries have ever won the World Cup—three from South America and three from Western Europe. There has never been a great national team—or a really great player from North America or from Asia. Second, these players have all had years of practice in...
Coopers entered Jack in nine F2 races that year and he won five of them, most were blue-riband events too: the London Trophy at Crystal Palace, Prix de Paris, Montlhery, the Rochester Trophy at Brands and Oulton Park’s Gold Cup. ...
Twenty years ago, the Boston Red Sox began the season in which they won their first World Series since 1918. What was the world like back then?
On that beautiful summer day out in the country everyone was happy.I don’t know what spooked Rockla but he swung around so fast I was barely able to stay seated. Then he was off at a gallop with me lying low over his neck while trying to pull him up. I’m a screamer and you ...
Hoosier Hotshots—I picked up this compilation off Discogs on a lark and it has been in regular rotation ever since. Marketed as a musical comedy ensemble in the 1930s, these guys played the tightest Country/Jazz I’ve ever heard, and with mindblowing virtuosity. A blast from start to fi...
Twenty years ago, the Boston Red Sox began the season in which they won their first World Series since 1918. What was the world like back then?