Ancient Babylonian world map from a clay tablet, nearly 3,000 years old, reveals a version of the Noah's Ark story and ...

Legend has it that a headless sculpture of the god Yaxachtun at the site formerly terrified the local Lacandon people, who feared that the world would ... until about 1890. Today, it is noted ...

There was the 22,000-pound block of cheese from Canada, and the ... in 1890 declares for the first time that there is no longer a visible frontier line on the demographic maps that the Census ...

A recent study conducted by the non-profit company, Climate Central, revealed that the US is currently experiencing a rise in ...

The US federal government is the nation's largest landlord and still owns 28 percent of the land in the US. The time has come ...

This electrostatic device was invented between 1880-1883 by British inventor James Wimshurst. It was used for generating high voltages, the machines were frequently used to power X Ray tubes.

Read more about “Allerleirauh; or, the Many-Furred Creature.” The Green Fairy Book, edited by Andrew Lang, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1892, pp. 276-281 ...

Israel carried out one of the most intense bombardments of the past year, as warplanes launched 70 airstrikes, Lebanese security officials said. The barrage came shortly after Hezbollah’s leader ...

ABSTRACT.The American admiral Mahan effectively invented the modern concept of “sea power”, but when his countrymen were persuaded to adopt it, they found that it was not quite the simple formula for ...

There’s a deep amount of love and care put into the house that I’d say is reflected deeply in who they are as people.” ...

I thought I would put together a selection of some of the most intriguing scotch whiskies from each whisky region of Scotland ...

Carlos Magdalena, whose botanical adventures have shades of Indiana Jones, was a driving force in saving the world’s smallest water lily and finding the largest one. He has been called the ...