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In 1917, the Hall brothers sold tissue paper during the holiday season for gift wrap in a shop in downtown Kansas City, Mo — until they ran out. They quickly turned to something they had on hand, envelope liners; they sold out again, and a few years later, they were printing their own decorative gift wrap. It was the first product Hallmark made other than gift cards.

Do you remember the first time you saw a magic trick as a kid? Something vanished, or appeared, or broke and got fixed again. And you wondered how it was…

Some 50 years after it closed, traces of the Klamath Falls city zoo remain at Moore Park, with slabs of concrete marking what were once pens holding…

Siskiyou County historian Alex J. Rosborough was born on Aug. 30, 1865, in Yreka, Calif., one of six children of District Court Judge A. M. Rosborough and…

Even people and programs that celebrate history can make a bit of history themselves. So it is with "As It Was," the two-minute regional history program…

Martin Scorsese's three-and-a-half-hour mob movie, "The Irishman," stars Robert De Niro as a killer for hire, and Al Pacino as Teamsters union boss Jimmy Hoffa.

After decades of modern fire prevention some forests are much thicker than they've been historically. New research offers a guide to thinning that could keep wildfires smaller and shorter.

In the movie, four boys are walking across a railroad bridge, one of them on hands and knees. The bridge has no railings and drops off about 100 feet to…

Philip Gelb once toured with top musicians. Now he's a chef who hosts intimate dinner parties where the entertainment, by innovative world musicians, is as experimental as the ever-changing fare.

Toby Riddle’s Son Writes Modoc War History