Ohio is home to countless museums dedicated to art, local and national history, U.S. presidents, railroads, planes, trains, automobiles — you name it, chances are there’s a museum for it. But many ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image elements via Whirler During the Middle Ages – and in some regions, all the way through the 19th century – one could expect ...

Those rotating red, white, and blue poles outside barbershops have become an icon. At first glance, you’d probably assume barber pole designs have a patriotic background. But the reality is pretty ...

Red, white, and blue barber poles look patriotic, but there's a blood-soaked meaning behind their design. Those rotating red, white, and blue poles outside barbershops have become an icon. At first ...

Barber shops don't exactly have a hard time standing out on the streetscape, and it's largely thanks to the mesmerizing poles that spin just outside of their door fronts. But where'd that barber pole ...

Barber Pole No. 34,889 has seen better days. After spending more than 40 years in front of Twin Cities barbershops, its red-white-and-blue-striped cylinder is sun-faded and in pieces inside its glass ...

ST. PAUL, Minn.—Barber Pole No. 34,889 has seen better days. After spending more than 40 years in front of Twin Cities barbershops, its red-white-and-blue-striped cylinder is sun-faded and in pieces ...

What's red, white and blue, and has spun its way into controversy? It's the barber pole. The pole sometimes rotates outside the shops of cosmetologists or hair stylists who don't employ barbers.

After much debate over what is and is not a sign, city commissioners voted unanimously to ask the city attorney to write an amendment to the code to allow barber poles. “In my opinion,” Commissioner ...