Boer War Comes to Brooklyn details and had been up in

and had been up in jet fighters and down in nuclear-powered submarines

Harry Houdini exposes spiritualist methods of trickery during a mock seance to members of the New York Federation of Churches at the New York Hippodrome

the 5-year-old had defeated all other contestants under age 10 in not just a watermelon-eating contest but a pie-eating contest

A Times article on Portugal's hilly wine country said

was followed by a snowstorm that left drifts as high as nine feet in Birmingham

Boer War Comes to Brooklyn details and had been up inIn the early days of silent films, before movie companies moved to Southern California, New York was the nation's film capital. War movies were one of the most popular genres and in this photo George Melford directs "The Boer War" in Brooklyn. This photograph was used as a promotional photo for "The Boer War" around its release March 31, 1914. Vitagraph Studios, which built its first studio in the Flatbush area of Brooklyn in 1905, made "The Boer War"