The Battle of Cape Passero (1940) unfolded in the early hours of October 12, during World War II. British cruiser hms Ajax, ...

In the vast expanse of the Aegean Sea (nearby Greece), an Allied squadron patrolling the waters encountered two Italian cruisers making a transfer from Tripoli to Leros, an Italian colony in the ...

Nearly 65 years ago, Glen and Ruth Waggoner piled their 10 daughters into their Model T Ford for a ride from their rural home southwest of Mattoon to the Coles County Courthouse. Ranging in age from 2 ...

In 1945 a gruesome murder rocked the English village of Lower Quinton, sparking an extensive criminal investigation and, in decades to come, salacious rumors of a supernatural motive. The victim, an ...

Section I. Enzymes -- a. From the 1780s to c. 1880: fermentation and digestion / A.-L. Lavoisier ... [et al.] -- b. From c. 1880 to c. 1940: nature of action and ...

Emerson's Patriot Radio, model FC-400, made in 1940 Philadelphia Museum of Art In the popular imagination, the 1940s were dominated by sacrifice at home and violence abroad as World War II raged on.