Two months after the war ended, Confederate soldiers destroyed a fleet of Yankee ships, which were harvesting bowhead whales ...

The Slovak Spectator reports that a settlement dating back some 7,000 years has been mapped with lidar technology at Hrádok, ...

By today's standards, Eric Fisher Wood Sr. would probably not have joined the National Guard, let alone join two armies to ...

Submarines came to the forefront of military navies with the advent of WWI, as Germany's dangerous U-boats proved a ...

Paul Fussell’s 50-year-old survey of trench warfare deserves a new generation of readers, our book critic writes.

Contractors successfully moved a barracks building Jan. 22 from its resting area of 80-plus years to a new location on Fort ...

A vast archive of letters sent by relatives of soldiers missing in World War One seeking the help of Spain's King Alfonso ...

Prohibited from serving with the U.S. Army as a medical officer, Barbara Stimson was commissioned by the British—and helped ...

The Bank of Russia set the official dollar rate at 95.8024 rubles for February 12, down 98 kopecks against the previous indicator. The official euro rate was reduced by 1.3 rubles to 99.1953 rubles.

Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989 ... At this stage, there were essentially only two kinds of browser. One was the original development version, which was ...

The Cheshire city was the only place in the UK to be featured in the list, which was published as part of the 13th edition of ...

With projects like Portland's airport extension and the world's tallest wooden tower, modern timber architecture is ... Apple actually handled the design of this one in-house, which is unusual ...