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If Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon read the history book Images of America: Port Charlotte would he have envisioned a retirement haven around Charlotte Harbor, Fla?

Punta Gorda, Florida, historians Ann M. O'Phelan and Scot Shively capture the Southwest Florida city's rich historical past in a new book in the Images of America series.

Kid Barker is captured and charged with murder, but escapes jail several months later.

Founded as Mauch Chunk in 1815 and later named Jim Thorpe in 1954 is a Victorian town located in the lower Lehigh River Gorge in the Pocono Mountains in northeastern PA.

Kennewick Shootout: The body of outlaw Jake Lake is found, Kid Barker arrested, Marshal Mike Glover dies.

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It was bad enough when the reviled Barry Bonds was the main target of the steroid scandal but now that Alex Rodriguez is in the middle how will baseball recover?

Buddhist iconography, like the teaching of Buddhism transformed as it moved away from the Vedic traditions of India.

In rural James City County near Williamsburg, Virginia, generations of farmer toiled on ancestral land to raise tobacco and later to supply produce to markets.

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Ruthless and cunning, Blackbeard the pirate is historically said to have visited locations in both Delaware and Pennsylvania during his career on the Eastern Seaboard.