The short story is that during the foundation of Prattville, Alabama, Daniel Pratt built a cotton gin manufacturing factory in the 1800s. It was thriving, so that also meant cheap labor and child ...

Iron City Distilling, the spirits-making arm of Pittsburgh Brewing Co., unveiled a piece of equipment that produces booze the ...

A new exhibition that documents the impact of the Industrial Revolution features several 1800s artists, writers and thinkers as they began to capture the transformation of the environment.

The 1800s saw the Pound Sterling to US Dollar (GBPUSD) exchange rate by and large maintain a rate of around $5 to every £1 with the notable deviations from the rate seen to be aligned with ...

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