Even in the 19th century, the United States Congress moved slowly. In 1828, President John Quincy Adams asked Congress to fund a United States scientific circumnavigation of the globe. Congress appro ...

A temporary export bar has been placed on a manuscript journal detailing Captain John Narbrough's expedition to Spanish America and the Pacific The ...

Even going back to that Pittsburgh game, the Bills have really settled in with three primary receivers — Khalil Shakir, Gabe ...

His Pulitzer-nominated book “Graven Images” inspired a reassessment of Puritan art, challenging the belief that imagery ...

Hong Kong rings down the curtain on the international racing season Sunday with four Group 1 races featuring two of the world ...

Two of the world's best horses, Romantic Warrior and Ka Ying Rising, showed their stuff in Sunday's Longines Hong Kong ...

I did not fully believe in Sherlock Holmes’ existence until I first set eyes on Jeremy Brett, the actor smirking ...

One of Horncastle’s crown jewels, the Sir Joseph Banks Centre, has landed a prestigious award at a ceremony recognising ...

Henry Seymer was a modest man or so experts who have studied his works would say. He lived in Hanford House, a Jacobean manor in a village of the same name just north of Blandford. He was a naturalist ...

The Scouts obtained their first dedicated Christmas Ship, The SES Discovery, in 1951, and set sail that year with a 20-foot tree and gaggle of teenage boys in tow. Don’s son, Steve, said the SES ...

Going surfing, cycling the coastline, enjoying local art and spending time on the beach are only some of the things to do in ...

James Cook is nearing 4,000 career rushing yards, and he'd become the sixth player in Bills history to do so. Cook surpassed LeSean McCoy and Travis Henry on Bills' all-time rushing leaderboard ...