11+ hour, 18+ min ago  (540+ words) One of the oldest known burial sites ever discovered is also home to what appears to be evidence of horrific violence committed as far back as 145,000 years ago. As it was chronicled in Scientific Reports, one recently reexamined Homo sapiens…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago  (877+ words) The grave of Dr Robert Acton at Woodlawn cemetery in New York Was Kinsale doctor Robert Acton murdered by his wife? This is the question Macroom author Adrienne Acton is hoping the people of Cork will be able to help…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago  (430+ words) Long remembered for his violent reign and bizarre behavior, Roman Emperor Caligula may have also possessed a surprising degree of medical knowledge, according to a new study. In a 2025 paper published in the Proceedings of the European Academy of Sciences…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago  (208+ words) The Keene Sentinel Late in the year 1889, Dora Cook of Westmoreland became ill while at her job in Keene She returned to her father’s home to recover, where it was soon determined that she was suffering from diphtheria…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago  (460+ words) The social news or gossip columns in the old newspapers are always fascinating to read. A special section in the newspaper was devoted to the social media of the day. The whereabouts of local people and events were often featured…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago  (255+ words) From 1976: Marvin R. Meier, 20, one of two people who fell from a ledge above the Spokane River two weeks earlier, remained in critical condition with severe head injuries. He was on a ledge outside of Culligan Park on the north bank…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago  (653+ words) New mathematical modelling shows the first smallpox epidemic among Aboriginal people in the Sydney region may have spread thousands of kilometres and lasted decades....

3+ day, 5+ hour ago  (104+ words) The Crown Point Rotary Club donated to the Franciscan Health Foundation and other Indiana nonprofits. Other new NFL stadiums built across the country in recent years have anchored huge, transformative projects sometimes touted as new city cente… The Indiana Dunes…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago  (435+ words) Sarah Kuta | Daily Correspondent Smallpox devastated Australia’s Aboriginal communities in the late 18th century, not long after British colonists stepped foot on the continent. But historians have long debated how the disease arrived on the isolated landmass, as well as how…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago  (215+ words) The exhibit was created with the help of the Post-Journal’s long-time Publisher Mike Bird, retired Editor Cristi Herbst and content from historian Helen Ebersole’s book An ImPRESSsive Record, Jamestown Journal 1826-1941. The exhibit tells the story of local newspaper traditions starting…...