“We’re freeing John A.,” Ontario Premier Doug Ford recently announced, unveiling plans to return a statue of Sir John A. Macdonald to its place of prominence overlooking the south lawn of ...

Claims that dismantling public statues and renaming roads and schools somehow erases Canadian history profoundly misunderstand how history works.

“We’re freeing John A.,” Ontario Premier Doug Ford recently announced, unveiling plans to return a statue of Sir John A. Macdonald to its place of prominence overlooking the south lawn of the Ontario ...

“We’re freeing John A.,” Ontario Premier Doug Ford recently announced, unveiling plans to return a statue of Sir John A. Macdonald to its place of prominence overlooking the south lawn of ...

A new exhibition of the work of Richard Rogers at Sir John Soane’s Museum in London affords an opportunity to play that game, noting the occasional similarity or echo, and then the howling chasm ...

John Clark, Lisbon Lion and Celtic legend, was a man of substance whose life provided inspiration and carried lessons far beyond a football pitch, writes Hugh MacDonald ...

This toy steam engine was manufactured by the Ernst Plank Company of Nuremburg, Germany during the early 20th century. There is a small metal plate on the toy’s wooden base that reads “Hercules,” ...

This article was originally published with the title “Improved Governor for Steam Engines” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 7 No. 41 (June 1852), p. 324 doi:10.1038 ...

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