A large percentage of Europeans lived on farms or in small villages in the 1500s and 1600s. There were constant threats of crop failure and disease, although wheat bread was a favorite staple. Rye and ...

The Dutch oven is a versatile cookware staple that has stood the test of time. Still not sure if you really need one? This ...

Cigarettes, which had been around in crude form since the early 1600s, didn't become widely ... of the "White Burley" tobacco leaf and the invention of the first practical cigarette-making machine ...

Fierce Desires,” by Rebecca L. Davis, is a wide-ranging survey of how Americans have thought about and practiced and policed ...

Other historians debate this origin, instead placing bratwurst's invention even further back with the Celts ... bratwurst to ...

In a world that many people found to be over-supplied with books, the invention of rare books was a process of selection. As books are one of the principal means of memory, this process also created ...

The $1,600 Rev is a beefier, more powerful version of the scooters you’d pay a few bucks to ride to your next location, with a top speed of 24 m.p.h. and a range of 22 miles on a full three-hour ...

The first explores the experimentation of glass recipes and how these impacted production and industry, while the other ...

Grocery chains have been forking over money in effort to block a controversial $1,600 rebate in Oregon. Measure 118 will be on the ballot for Oregon voters this fall. Under the measure ...

As Oregon considers passing a $1,600 rebate for residents, state Democrats have come out against the measure, saying it could have dire consequences for other government services. In November ...