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A century ago, a mob of anti-modernist art students condemned Henri Matisse to death in a mock trial after seeing his paintings.

It’s hard to explain how depressed I felt when I read reports of the comedian Paul Currie screaming abuse at an Israeli member of his audience and ejecting him from his show, yelling “get the f___ out of my theatre. Get out, get the f___ out of my show, motherf___ers.”

The best comedians know how to make a crowd uncomfortable. But the Belfast comic's treatment of an Israeli audience member crossed a line

Now that the former paper mill site is on the verge of a new use with the City of Sartell, we look back at how the once-thriving mill got to this point, from disaster to rebirth.

The Illinois Central Railroad estimated it would carry at least 15,000 fans from Chicago to the game.

While this deceptively simple portrait has clearly captured the imagination of the nation, the story behind its creation and rise to fame makes it all the more compelling.

The Register's globe-trotting journalist's career ends after 25 years. The Catholic formula for rounding off a prayer, to avoid speeding direc...

The fly fisher and outdoors writer drew national acclaim in the late 1800s and remains a legend in the Rangeley Lakes Region. Now more will learn of how she promoted outdoors activities in Maine.

The insistence of a Hawaiian prince cemented the military in the islands decades before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

The MIT Series Patrick Collison and Tyler Cowen opened their 2019 Atlantic piece that helped jump-start the progress studies movement with the following passage: In 1861, the American scientist and educator William Barton Rogers published a manifesto calling for a new kind of research institution. Recognizing the “daily increasing proofs of the happy influence of scientific culture on the industry and the civilization of the nations,” and the growing importance of what he called “Industria...