It is reported that Sir Isaac Newton, one of the greatest minds of the Enlightenment, lost £20,000 or the equivalent of $3 ...

"In essence, what China now declares is that it is prepared to fight to the end: trade war, tariff war, technology war, or real war," Victor Gao of the Center for China and Globalization, a Beijing ...

Evolving ethnic conflict and emerging Indian factor The general elections of 1977, which Sirimavo Bandaranaike had called, on July 21 saw another of those dramatic swings of the political pendulum, ...

King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands and his spouse Queen Máxima hosted an official dinner in honour of His Majesty Sultan Haitham bin Tarik ...

Its economy was based on brazilwood the source ... was evident in its many churches and the art to adorn them (a 17th-century silver altar vessel). Mosteiro de Sao Bento, Rio de Janeiro ...

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The small state of Delaware was the very first state of the United States. Here's what else Delaware is famous for.

A facsimile of the 17th-century Dutch documents that Charles Gehring spent 50 years translating, showing the condition of ancient records damaged by floods, in battles, in leaky ship holds and ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered a trove of artifacts from a 17th-century military camp in Germany. Some of the findings could help shed light on a mysterious gravesite at the camp. Photo from ...