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PITTSBURGH — Bouquet’s Blockhouse, a shelter for 18th-century soldiers being sniped at or overrun by warring tribes, survived Pontiac’s War and two revolutions -- the American and Industrial. It ...

MUSKEGON--Conceived as a make-work project in the depths of the Great Depression, the blockhouse rose from the ashes after a gang of local youths burned it to the ground in 1962. Former Michigan state ...

MEYERTON – The Witkop Blockhouse, a declared national monument and one of the last remaining examples of its kind in South ...

MUSKEGON, Mich. (WZZM) -- Spray paint and flames from an arsonist -- those are the two biggest problems at a historic site in Muskegon County. It sits on the county's highest elevation, just around a ...

A dig at a 16th Century blockhouse commissioned by Henry VIII for the city of Hull's defences has uncovered the original floor levels from the 1540s. Ken Steedman, of Humber Field Archaeology (HFA), ...

In April 1945, LIFE magazine published one of the most memorable cover images of its four-decade run as a major photographic weekly. The picture, made in March 1945 on the island of Iwo Jima by W.

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A notorious bank robber who escaped last month from a federal prison has robbed another bank and may be hiding in South Florida, officials said. Dubbed the “Blockhouse Bandit” for his string of bank ...

“Significant repairs” that need to be made on the site of a dormant fort are expected to be extremely costly. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is continuing to try and sell Fort Blockhouse in Gosport, ...

Karaoke offers a chance to live out such dreams. It started in Japan in the 1970s, and it might not have happened at all if, supposedly, a hired performer had not been a no-show one night at a bar.