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Political cartoons and drawings were popular features in 1890s newspapers and the yellow journals of the Spanish-American War era. Before the Spanish-American War began, drawings depicting Spain ...

Sept. 5 (UPI) --People in the small Dutch village of Kinderdijk celebrated "Illumination Week" on Thursday by illuminating ...

Publishing regularly in Harper's Weekly, the celebrated Nast drew thousands of cartoons during the second half of the nineteenth century. Like many Northerners, Nast supported President Lincoln ...

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Scottish professor James Blyth built the first windmill to make electricity in ... unwanted blades have been put to a different use. The Dutch city boasts a 1,200sq m children's playground called ...

This is where floating wind farms come into play. The world's first floating wind farm, Hywind, opened in 2017, almost 25 ...

where a local artist has glued 11 million cigar bands to big boards to create giant images — from Dutch windmills to a sour-looking Statue of Liberty. Amsterdam can be thrilling, but any native ...

The cocoa beans used to make Dutch-process cocoa powder are washed in an alkaline solution of potassium carbonate. This neutralizes the cocoa’s natural acidity, making it darker in color and ...