__1806: __Englishman Ralph Wedgwood receives the first patent for carbon paper. His work seems to duplicate that of Italian inventor Pellegrino Turri. Wedgwood was part of the famous Wedgwood family ...

On September 2, 1806, the Swiss village of Goldau was destroyed by a landslide that had an estimated volume of 40 million cubic meters, coming from the Rossberg. 457 people perished in what was one of ...

U.S. Army Captain Meriwether Lewis, 2nd Lt. William Clark and their Corps of Discovery returned to St. Louis to a hero's welcome after their epic journey to the Pacific Ocean on this day in history, ...

There are quite a few roads within Sussex County that started out as turnpikes. In the early 1800s our “roads” were actually old Indian paths that did not handle wagons or stagecoaches that well. This ...

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The Common Cause lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Senate filibuster has focused attention on the origins of the filibuster—with important reactions by Greg Koger, Steve Smith, and Ezra ...