Albany County Public Library invites you to the Maurice Sendak Memorial Exhibition “50 Years, 50 Works, 50 Reasons.” ACPL will be the only location in Wyoming to host the exhibit during its nationwide tour.

For centuries, historians and archaeologists have puzzled over the many mysteries of Stonehenge, the prehistoric monument that took Neolithic builders an estimated 1,500 years to erect.

An "8" to denate the 1980s or a "9" to denote the 1990s may also appear. Solid or open single star sandblasted on the bottom or sides of "preferred seconds" sold primarily in the Fenton Gift Shop. A double star was put on ware donated to Williamstown organizations for fundraising activities.

Shirley Plantation is Virginia’s first plantation, founded in 1613, after a royal land grant carved the plantation out of the Virginia frontier.

Located in southern England, it is comprised of roughly 100 massive upright stones placed in a circular layout.

» Download PDF version: Bannings and Burnings in History 259–210 B. 35: The Roman emperor Caligula opposed the reading of by Homer, written more than 300 years before.

In these years, he instigated great “bonfires of the vanities” which destroyed books and paintings by some of the greatest artists of Florence.

He persuaded the artists themselves to bring their works—including drawings of nudes—to the bonfires.

Archaeologists believe England most iconic prehistoric ruin was built in several stages, with the earliest constructed 5,000 or more years ago.

First, Neolithic Britons used primitive tools—possibly made from deer antlers—to dig a massive circular ditch and bank, or henge, on Salisbury Plain.