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Argyle Passage links the busy Tottenham High Road with Argyle Road behind and has always been a pedestrian route, dating back to when this area of countryside was first transformed into the urban sprawl we know today. Although Tottenham remained rural until the 19th century, the High Road itself is ancient - a descendant of the Roman Ermine Street, later diverted slightly to avoid the flood-prone Moselle Brook.

On a frigid winter's day in 1906, tens of thousands of Jewish parents in New York's Lower East Side and Brooklyn kept their children home from school. It wasn't a snow day, but a protest: Activists and the Yiddish press had called for a boycott of the Christmas assemblies and pageants that they knew Jewish children would be obliged to attend on the day before the holiday.

In 1939, as the world prepared to plunge into the chaos of World War II, a small, frozen country withstood the onslaught of the Soviet Union. Three million Finns against 171 million Russians. One hundred and five days of combat at -50C (-58F). This forgotten story is what Olivier Norek, 50, a former police officer and author of crime novels, brings to light in The Winter Warriors, which has already sold more than 300,000 copies in France.

On Nov. 15,1969, a quarter of a million protesters staged a peaceful demonstration in Washington against the Vietnam War. Also on this date: In 1777, the Second Continental Congress approved the Articles of Confederation. In 1806, explorer Zebulon Pike sighted the mountain now known as Pikes Peak in present-day Colorado. In 1864, late in the U.S. Civil War, Union forces led by Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh (teh-KUM'-seh) Sherman began their March to the Sea from Atlanta;

A conversation with Mark Roosien about the earthquakes that struck Constantinople in late antiquity and about how emperors and the people of the City reacted to them in the moment. We focus on the church liturgies that commemorated and tried to make sense of them. Rev. Mark Roosien is Rector of Holy Ghost Orthodox Church (OCA) and was formerly a postdoctoral associate at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, and Lecturer in Liturgical studies.

Your pennies are now collector's items. The last penny was minted Wednesday at the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia, spelling the end of America's longest-running coin design. More than Andy Warhol's Marilyn Monroe or Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, it's sculptor and medalist Victor David Brenner's profile of Abraham Lincoln on the humble penny that's actually believed to be the most-reproduced piece of art in the history of the world:

This therapist unlocked a piece of history. Construction crews working on a refreshed storefront for a Brooklyn psychotherapy office discovered stunning, century-old stained glass that offers a sneak peek into Greenpoint's past. "I was totally blown away. It's a huge unexpected gift," Karen G. Costa, who has rented Brooklyn Psychotherapy's office at 705 Manhattan Ave. for years, told The Post. "I almost cried."

A new analysis of a 4,300-year-old silver goblet has identified the earliest known visual depiction of creation, showing themes that closely align with the Bible's Book of Genesis. The artifact, known as the Ain Samiya goblet, stands just three inches tall and is decorated with intricate images of snakes, chimeras, gods, celestial bodies and a mysterious 'boat' of light. Discovered in 1970 in the Judean Mountains of the West Bank,

Though Catherine of Braganza (1638-1705) wed Charles II of England (reign 1660-1685) in a union of great political consequence, her life and impact in Restoration England remain largely overlooked in the English-speaking world. In her latest work, Charles II's Portuguese Queen: The Legacy of Catherine of Braganza, historian Susan Abernethy illuminates Catherine's queenship, diplomacy, and patronage, revealing a woman far more complex and influential than history has long acknowledged.

As the Marine Corps celebrates 249 years of service this November 10, it's worth remembering the Marines who earned the nation's highest military honor, the Medal of Honor. States like Texas, California, and New York have produced more decorated Marines than any others. The stories of these Marines define the courage, sacrifice, and unbreakable spirit that the Corps has carried into every battle for nearly two and a half centuries.

Wood's story has all the elements you've come to expect from today's college football melodrama. An experienced transfer, several years older than his teammates. Accusations of roster tampering. Questions of eligibility and flimsy classes. A fast turnaround to glory, followed by hot-blooded allegations from rival fans. College football history may not repeat itself, but to paraphrase an old saying, it does rhyme.

1. "I remember when pants weren't allowed on airplanes. Men had to wear a matching pantsuit." 2. "Back in the '60s and '70s, before cars had chimes and buzzers, people regularly forgot to turn off their headlights and left their car doors unlocked. If you came across a car like that, you could lean in and turn the lights off for them. It happened frequently back then, but my granddaughter doesn't believe me." -Anonymous

The War of Jenkins' Ear (1739-1748) was a colonial conflict fought between Great Britain and Spain, primarily in the Caribbean and off the coast of South America. Looking to protect its interests in the West Indies, Britain provoked a war with Spain, one of its biggest colonial rivals, citing the mistreatment of one Captain Robert Jenkins, who was detained - and allegedly mutilated - by Spanish coast guards as they searched his ship for smuggled goods.

Vanderbilt'svision of the trial for 22 of the surviving Nazi leaders-21 were in fact in the dock-by the United Sates, the USSR, Britain, and France telegraphs its anxieties across the 80 years from the trial's opening to today. At Nuremberg's first public session, on November 20, 1945, journalists heralded the opening of "the trial of the century." Nuremberg's message to the law and politics of the previous century was the way claiming to be "just following orders" shouldn't cancel individual responsibility for widespread atrocities.

Betty Reid Soskin was 92 when she first went viral and became, in effect, a rock star of the National Park Service. She was the oldest full-time national park ranger in the US this was back in 2013; she'd become a ranger at 85 but she had been furloughed along with 800,000 other federal employees during the government shutdown. News channels flocked to interview her. She was aggrieved not to be working, she told them; she had a job to do.

Developed in Roxbury, Massachusetts in the early 17th century, the Roxbury Russet is considered the first distinctly American apple variety. Featuring a green skin prone to russets (rough, brown patches), it has a firm flesh with a tart taste and a high sugar content that makes it ideal for cider, in addition to eating and cooking. Harvested in the fall, the Roxbury Russet stores well throughout winter as its flavor continues to develop.

“We hold these truths to be sacred,” Thomas Jefferson wrote in his first draft. Benjamin Franklin, who was on the five-person drafting committee with Jefferson, crossed out “sacred,” using the heavy backslash marks he had often used as a printer, and wrote in “self-evident.” Their declaration was intended to herald a new type of nation, one in which rights are based on reason, not the dictates or dogma of religion.

British Asian families are being urged to record the experiences of relatives who fought for Britain for future generations as data reveals half the British public don't know that Indian members of the armed forces served in the second world war. The My Family Legacy project, backed by the Royal British Legion, is building an online archive of Asian veterans' experiences to raise awareness of the shared histories and sacrifices of Britain's diverse communities.

The coin would fall inside and land on a lever. Under the weight of the coin, the lever went down, pulling a string. The string was attached to a plug that opened a valve, allowing the container to dispense holy water. So Hero's invention was not a snack machine - it was designed to prevent people from taking more than their fair share of holy water, which had apparently been a problem in temples up to that point.

Eight parchment pages bound in furry sealskin recently donated to the National Library of Norway may be the oldest book in Norway. For decades the book was at the Hagenes farm in Bergen, passed down through the generations, until the family decided to give it to the National Library earlier this year. According to family lore, the manuscript originated in a monastery in Western Norway.

What they built there-through cunning, negotiation, and fortification-became one of the most remarkable mountain strongholds of the medieval world. In the first two decades of the twelfth century, the Assassins had faced appalling disasters. They had tried to take over some of the most desirable real estate in Syria, and had been killed for their ambition. In Aleppo and Damascus they had been subjected to ruthless massacres that had destroyed their urban bases and devastated their nearby rural communities.

CT scans of a 16th century sword from Jena in Germany have revealed a name engraved on the blade, hidden by a thick encrustation of rust. The inscription reads Clemes Stam, the name of the Solingen swordsmith who made it. The blade was one of four surviving swords interred in the graves of the Collegiate Church in Jena where faculty, students and their families were buried in crypts between the late 16th and early 19th centuries.

Abraham Lincoln penned the entreaty on behalf of his young friend, William Johnson, because ironically, his dark complexion caused freed Black White House staffers with lighter skin to shun him. "The difference of color between him and the other servants is the cause of our separation," Lincoln wrote in the March 16, 1861, letter that private collector Peter Tuite donated in August to the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, where it is now on public display.

A tape-based piece of unique Unix history may have been lying quietly in storage at the University of Utah for 50+ years. The question is whether researchers will be able to take this piece of middle-aged media and rewind it back to the 1970s to get the data off. The news was posted to Mastodon by Professor Robert Ricci of the University of Utah's Kahlert School of Computing.