Troll YouTube long enough and chances are good that you’ll come across all kinds of videos of the “How It’s Made” genre. And buried in with the frying pans and treadmills and dental floss ...

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Clay pipes used for smoking were so common in the 1700s and 1800s that it’s not very remarkable to find fragments of them at archaeological sites from the early days of the United States. But Julie ...

Explorers to Roanoke Island in the 1580s found the natives smoking tobacco in a new way – from pipes. The English, looking to colonize and find riches in the New World, took up the habit, found it ...