In March 2025 the major exhibition Pirates will open at the National Maritime Museum (NMM), tracing the changing depictions ...

As far back as we can tell, Spain reigned over what would become Texas first. They called Texas theirs twice; from 1519 - ...

The Middle East is an artificial construct created by British and French diplomats after World War I, and the recent collapse ...

While the Met Office said UK weather was variable, the long term trends showed clear evidence in this country of how the ...

“The canal was built in 1728 by Judge Michael Ward. It created a formal landscape and was designed to reflect the picturesque ...

Demetris Skourides spoke with Souzana Psara about his transformative first year as Chief Scientist. He detailed significant ...

WINTER SKATING — Stable 41, 214 First St., Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. Glice-skating rink (synthetic ice) opens for second season, ...

Inspired in part by the Roman Catholic order of nursing sisters established by France’s St. Vincent de Paul, Fliedner in 1836 drew up plans ... Nazi crimes against world Jewry, the sisters ...

Maps have often misrepresented the real size of developing nations, portraying them as smaller than more developed countries. Cartographers in recent times and preceding centuries portrayed the world ...

Researchers believe they have found the site where Alexander the Great's troops fought the Battle of the Granicus.

Waves of human migration across Europe during the first millennium AD have been revealed using a more precise method of analysing ancestry with ancient DNA, in research led by the Francis Crick ...

Midori Kato is the last original member of the cast of “Sazae-san,” a cartoon series that premiered in 1969 and never quite joined the modern world. Lena Schilling, the youngest lawmaker in ...