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The Mod Subculture: A Time Apart

People who lived and loved modern jazz music about fifty years back—around 1960, just before the Beatles changed the landscape of the music world—came to identify themselves as Mods. The Modculture has been revived about every ten to fifteen years,…

History of the Vespa

1950s Vespa Scooter

Did you know that the stylish motor scooter known as the Vespa got its name because its designer thought it looked like a bug? The word vespa is Italian for wasp—and that’s what it was called by the man who…

History and Genealogy

It is a fact of life that your family’s history is part of a greater total. If you don’t succeed completely to put the pieces of your family’s history together, you might find out a lot about history itself and…