The son of Colonel Joel Lewis and Mary Jane (Turner) Nixon. After preparatory education at Leesburg Academy, he was appointed to the United States ... in succession to Richard Croker, 1902.

A trio of singers filled in for Kurt Cobain as Dave Grohl, Pat Smear and Krist Novoselic performed "Breed," "School" and ...

Trump compares Israel’s ‘tiny land’ in the Middle East to a pen on his desk US President Donald Trump compares Israel’s ‘tiny land’ in the Middle East to a pen on his desk. From a ...

PASADENA, Texas (AP) — A parent tackled a man who opened fire during a band competition at a Houston-area high school as several others then helped disarm and detain him in a shooting that ...

Bishop Richard Williamson, a former English bishop of the Priestly Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), died on Wednesday at the age of 84 after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage. The Priestly Society of ...

Dundee United have fielded enquiries from one Major League Soccer club, as well as clubs in Belgium, Romania and elsewhere in Scotland, for 24-year-old out-of-favour Kenya midfielder Richard Odada ...

Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson were three of the biggest names in Rock and Roll when they played at the Surf ...

Experience in voucher states indicates that the great majority of those who get the subsidy money are already sending their kids to private or religious schools. That will undoubtedly be the case ...

In most of the world (except for the United States, Jamaica, and a few other countries), the degree Celsius scale is used for most temperature measuring purposes. The entire scientific world (the ...