Aug 30th, 2008 · Times are tough; city officials in Duluth, Minn. are hoping the sale of a stained glass Tiffany window can help solve some of the city's financial woes. The window, which depicts Longfellow's fictional princess Minnehaha, has been a part of Duluth's landscape since 1893.
May 19th, 2008 · Archaeologists are digging in a Chicago park that was the scene of the Chicago World's Fair in 1893. Experts want to find traces of that grand exposition, attended by millions. So far they've mainly found beer cans.
Oct 27th, 2006 · It's day two of a visit with the Takacs Quartet in the Performance Today studios. Today, the group plays the String Quartet in G Minor by Claude Debussy. In 1893, Debussy was 31, and was having trouble trying to write a string quartet. It turned out to be his only string quartet.
May 8th, 2005 · It has been assumed that basketball shoes first appeared about a decade after the game was invented in 1891. But as John Dankosky of WNPR in Hartford reports that a collector recently found a pair of shoes from a factory that closed in 1893.
Jul 5th, 2004 · Commentator Rob Kapilow offers a guide through Antonin Dvorak's "American" quartet, written by the Czech composer during the summer of 1893 when he stayed in the Czech expatriate community of Spillville, Iowa.