For centuries, the handkerchief was a small but indispensable part of daily life a neatly folded piece of cloth tucked in pockets and purses for wiping sweat, cleaning faces, or blowing noses .

You sneeze and someone replies, “God bless you,” or “Gesundheit!” You pull out a Kleenex to contain the sneeze. But, before the arrival of the Kleenex in the 1920s, there was the cloth “handkerchief” ...

In January 2021, as the United States neared the one-year anniversary of its first confirmed case of COVID-19 and tallied an increasing number of new cases daily, a tweet circulated alleging this ...

My father was born in 1925, and like many men of his era he was quite formal in dress. I never once saw him in bluejeans or a T-shirt. When he came home from his medical office at the end of a long ...

To mark the 80th anniversary of VJ Day, a museum in Surrey has shared memories of Allied soldiers who fought in the Far East campaign. The conflict was brought to a conclusion when two atomic bombs ...

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