It’s a story right out of an old Western movie. A stolen horse, a chase, a shootout and a death. The story fairly leaps off the crisp, folded pages of the coroner’s inquest, stored for nearly 100 years in a narrow metal box in the depths of the District Court vault.But the story would not have come to light again if Clem Lemieux hadn’t torn down a storage shed on May 5. The shed was attached to a garage on his property on Division Street on the south side of U.S. 2. When he removed a corner post, he discovered the cornerstone it was standing on was actually a gravestone.
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Officially, they were men from Swansea and surrounding towns including Neath and Port Talbot who made up the 14th (Service Battalion), The Welsh Regiment, part of the Welsh 38th Division during World War I.
The letters sent back home by Sub-Lieutenant John Pryor from a German prison camp seemed innocent enough. They often started with 'My Dear Mummy & Daddy' and talked about mundane things such as gardening and a 'vegetable patch'.
Hundreds of love letters revealing a passionate wartime affair between a doctor and a nurse have been published by their daughter. Swansea-born Brian Thomas, 34, fell in love with Katie Walker, 23, in Austria at the end of World War II.
Fairfax Media - which owns The Whangarei Leader, The Bay Chronicle, The Northern News and The Dargaville and Districts News as well as national and regional newspapers - plans to start shipping its old photos to Rogers Photo Archive next week. Prints will go first with negatives to follow later this year.
The floors creaked. The walls swayed in a strong breeze. Rot and termites had destroyed parts of the rickety structure built before the Civil War.
Two Danish men have been sentenced to prison after confessing to stealing World War II documents from Denmark's national archives.
A time-yellowed, 439-year-old baptismal registry from 16th century France, recently found to contain long-sought clues about the birth and family history of the famed New World explorer Samuel de Champlain, has arrived in Canada to help mark a major milestone in this country’s own birth.
The genetic links of one of Australia’s most notorious and controversial outlaws - Edward ‘Ned’ Kelly - is the focus of the Kelly Clan gathering in County Tipperary, Ireland.
Archaeologists with the LAMAR Institute discovered the location of Carr's Fort, a significant frontier fortification that was attacked on February 10, 1779.
Cher was born Cherilyn Sarkisian on May 20, 1946 in El Centro, California. Her father, John Paul Sarkisian, was Armenian American and worked as a truck driver.
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The records of thousands of 19th century immigrants to Britain are now available to search and download online.
Mother, bark and spit are just three of 23 words that researchers believe date back 15,000 years, making them the oldest known words.