Last week we looked at the origins of House Hohenzollern and the Thirty Years’ War that brought Brandenburg-Prussia close to ...

Last week we looked at the first of the Hohenzollerns and the complex marriage and inheritance politics that led to a ...

1907: Albert A. Michelson, the first head of the physics department at the University of Chicago, won the first Nobel Prize ever presented to an American (though he was born in Prussia) in science.

From Britain's distant Viking past right up to the D-Day landings, here are 15 of the most common misconceptions that many ...

2024: The Bears fired head coach Matt Eberflus — the first time the organization fired its coach midseason in 105 seasons. It happened a day after the team dropped its sixth consecutive game — a 23-20 ...

When the Berlin Wall went up overnight, National Geographic correspondents were on hand to document a city that became a ...

There was a civic election in Vancouver on Dec. 9, 1936. Alderman George Clark Miller beat alderman L. D. McDonald to become ...

This was Waterloo — not 1815, but today — staged on the very ground where history changed course. To mark the 210th ...

Not yet recognizing the extent of the defeat all along the front, Hitler and his generals saw their reverses merely as a ...

CluePoints, provider of leading statistical and AI-driven software solutions, has won the 'Best Contract Research Organization– Specialist Providers' category at the 2025 Scrip Awards.

A major mystery has surrounded the Hjortspring boat ever since its discovery: where did these invading warriors from the 4th ...

While Roman Catholic and Russian Orthodox communities had long maintained a presence in the Land of Israel, it was the ...