Folk group The Weavers, who had an international hit with Goodnight Irene in 1950, received an almighty ... glamorous of the UK's female stars of the early fifties. 35. Lita was terrified at ...

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, when Walt Disney was making plans for a safe and clean family park, amusement parks had a reputation for being dirty, dangerous, and run down. Disney envisioned ...

Operating commercial flights came along with exorbitant operational costs, something which meant that air carriers, which ...

The assassinations of John F Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy through to Vietnam and America’s shame at the My Lai massacre. A fascinating social, cultural and political history of American life ...

Pearson cautioned against succumbing "to the black madness of the witch hunt" when Canada began to track down homegrown communists in the early 1950s. (National Archives of Canada, PA-126393 ...

Early Six- and Eight-Series versions were powered ... Current listings show 15 1950s Pontiac Chieftains for sale -- eight first-gen models produced through 1954 and seven second-gen examples ...

The search to find a vaccine to prevent polio took many years and countless experiments before the disease was eventually eradicated in the United States.