This is the most probable date when Black explorer Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable begins building the settlement, which would eventually become the city of Chicago, Ill. The Haitian-born (c 1745) du ...

"Oh it’s easy to go to the rubber and hard to return, / Men leave their corpses, women depart as ghosts." Visitors to a colonial plantation might have heard this sorrowful song drifting above the soft ...

A well-known betel garden owner was found dead on his plantation after failing to return home, leaving his devastated family grappling with the shocking loss. The tragic discovery was made yesterday, ...

Bowling Green Plantation, Wilkinson County, Mississippi, 1795. Eli Whitney has planted the seed of the American cotton industry's industrial revolution by engineering the cotton gin! Which would ...

Meanwhile, Wandi Yadzid said that his department has also opened an investigation into the plantation owner under Section 29A of the Environmental Quality (Amendment) Act 2024. A spokesperson for ...

MANILA, Philippines -- Another game, another blowout win for Barangay Ginebra. The Gin Kings are one game away from punching a ticket to the PBA Commissioner’s Cup Finals after blasting the ...

SAN ANGELO, Texas (Concho Valley Homepage) — On Feb. 28, the bi-annual Concho Valley Cotton Conference took place. Local cotton producers came to the McNease Convention Center to network and ...

The dysfunctional Griffin family of Quahog, R.I., tries to deal with the usual scenarios they find themselves in while living their everyday lives with a little help from their friends, who tend to ...

Fear of cotton balls is also known as sidonglobophobia. Another term for the condition is bambakophobia, from the Greek bambaki, which means "cotton," and phobos, which means deep dread or fear. In ...

Then, travel to Knowlton House Distillery to see how whey is turned into vodka and gin. Uncover the link between dairy and spirits with host Luke Zahm in Knowlton, Wisconsin. At Mullins Cheese ...