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Without the heat wave, the U.S. Gulf Coast could well have been dealing with a tropical threat this week. Heres why the blistering heat is helping.

Triple-digit temperatures are driving record electricity demand in Texas this month — mostly because people are running their air conditioners more than usual. Back in 2018, we took a look back at the history of air conditioning — and how it changed migration patterns in the U.S.

So, what did people use to cool down before they were invented?

The nationwide event was marked with a moving event hosted by Ramahyuck.

DeLand, FL - Volusia County Council members approve a $25,000 contribution to go towards an indelible part of the area’s history. The money will go towards a similar, yet slightly smaller version of the marble statue of Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune th...

Civil-rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune will not only replace Confederate Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith in the nation’s capitol, but she may take his spot in the Lake County History Museum, too.

The clink clink of your New Years Eve toast has an icy backstory CNN 12/31/2020 © Shutterstock If ever there was a year to toast drawing to an end, its 2020. Over the festive period, people around the world will be raising a glass to better times ahead. Accompanying sighs of relief will likely be the subtle tinkling of ice. In researching a book on the social, medical and moral history of gin and tonic, I have imbibed -- moderately -- in bars from the Raffles Hotel in Singapore to the Morse...

Wayne Wood was just 5 or so when he first confronted Charles Adrian Pillars masterpiece of a sculpture, looming over him at Memorial Park on the Jacksonville riverfront. Cast in bronze, designed to honor those from Florida who died in the horror of World War I, the sculpture portrays a nude, winged male figure. Hes poised on one foot atop a stylized globe, holding an olive branch out to the sky. Below him rise the shapes of partial human figures, women and children, as if struggling to come ...

The innovative “frozen water” trade popularized ice. Dec 23rd, 2020 iStock If ever there was a year to toast drawing to an end, it’s 2020. Over the festive period, people around the world will be raising a glass to better times ahead. Accompanying sighs of relief will likely be the subtle tinkling of ice. In researching a book on the social, medical and moral history of gin and tonic, I have imbibed – moderately – in bars from the Raffles Hotel in Singapore to the Morse Bar in Oxf...

December 22, 2020 Ten Confederate statues are still on display in the Capitol building after the removal of Virginias Robert E. Lee sculpture. SHOW TRANSCRIPT The removal of the Robert E. Lee statue from the U.S. Capitol building Monday leaves 10 other Confederate sculptures on display in the complex, untouched by the reckoning over racially charged symbols that toppled statues in cities across the nation. The ones in the Capitol are protected by the heavily guarded halls of Congress and by law...