Nearly half a century after the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior, claiming the lives of 29 crew members, the ...

When Venustiano Carranza was president. 12,000 Americans crossed the border To hunt down and punish Pancho Villa for a “slip.” Poncho Villa (between 1908 and 1919, Library of Congress On March ...

The sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald freighter in Lake Superior in 1975 was remembered at a ceremony in River Rouge, Mich. The daughter of the cook on the Edmund Fitzgerald says she learned of his ...

These included unsafe vessel design, unsafe modifications, overloading, lack of critical instrumentation, prior hull damage, a bad weather forecast, a captain who was too cavalier about sailing in ...

A ballad is a type of poem that was traditionally set to music. The word ‘ballad’ comes from the Latin ‘ballare’ which means to dance – it’s also where the word ‘ballet’ comes from.

The 48th anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald ship sinking will be memorialized next Friday at the Michigan Maritime Museum in South Haven beginning at 7 p.m. In 1975, the largest ship sailing the ...

The Michigan Maritime Museum and Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum are commemorating the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald at a special ceremony on Friday, Nov. 10 at 7 p.m. The event will take place in ...

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Conversely, when Oliver Anthony sang his haunting ballad “Rich Men North of Richmond” last year, it was the people of Appalachia of all races, who sang along. When reports started flickering ...

The Ballad of the Witches' Road. “I was chasing the song so hard, and it became a thing of, like, the song is the thing. I had this notion of the song working as a spell that gets you ...

However, as viewers of the new Marvel series know by now, “The Ballad of the Witches’ Road” is anything but stupid. It’s a cultural touchstone for the centuries-old witches, an instruction ...