Horse-drawn carriages and a streetcar in the "Polish Downtown" section of Chicago, circa 1905. Photo: UPI/Bettmann ...

9. New Orleans; May-October 1905; more than 900 dead Yellow fever epidemics took more than 41,000 lives in New Orleans from 1817-1905, but the 1905 outbreak was America's last. Today, yellow fever ...

The partition had opened a Pandora’s Box. The communal identities it created eventually culminated into the end of British ...

Tonnes of rubble can be seen crashing into the back of the lorry with such force the HGV rocked on its wheels, after the ...

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AFTER a lapse of only eight years since the great earthquake of 1897, India suffered another calamity of the same nature on April 4, 1905, less in violence and extent, but more calamitous in its ...