A little more than a century ago, the new swimming pool at Roosevelt Park was overrun by mermaids. Granted, these flappers didn't have fins, but they mesmerized the masses in an Aug. 10, 1924, edition ...

AUSTIN, Texas -- Imagine silent movies, a Ferris wheel, carousel rides, a diving horse show, a man called the Human Fish, a world-renowned diving baby, a 50-foot diving tower, a 70-foot slide, trapeze ...

In February 1921, the Rev. John Mortimer Lydgate, pastor of the Lihue Congregational Church, in his desire to preserve the ruins of a heiau and a sacred Hawaiian place of refuge at Wailua, made a ...