By 1898 tensions at Arizona’s border with Mexico had waned but not disappeared. The end of the Mexican-American War in…
Archaeological excavations on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi have uncovered seven stone tools dating back at least 1.04 million years,…
Between 1288 and 1300 European merchants competed with one another to obtain the right to collect duties on wine shipments…
Go visit a sacred ancient site, if possible one featuring a high density of megalithic architecture, and when you get…
In September 1649 ship’s surgeon John Conny was deeply relieved and praised God that ‘all our men [are] in reasonable…
When it opened in the Malibu mountains in 1962, the ‘Teen-Age Beauty Farm’ – a combination spa, charm school, weight-loss…
In October 1929 thousands of members of Britain’s Book Society received a new hardback through the post. Whiteoaks, by an…
In March 1960 Julius Nyerere – then leader of the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU) – sat down with former…
By the time Plato departed the court of Dionysius the Younger in 361 BC, his relations with the Syracusan autocrat…
In June 1925 a sarcophagus was discovered in Dorset’s Sherborne Abbey and widely reported to be that of ‘Ethelbert’, a…