By the summer of 1987 it had become public knowledge that the Soviets had bugged the new building with technology that the United States was struggling to ...

Giuseppe Garibaldi met with Victor Emmanuel II, the King of Sardinia, at Teano and handed him control of southern ...

Davis first entered military service following the outbreak of the Spanish-American War in 1898, and later served as Professor of Military Science and Tactics at both Wilberforce University in Ohio and Tuskegee University in Alabama as well as serving tours of duty around the ...

Although the scale of panic selling on Wall Street did slow down, the market continued its downward trajectory for over 2 ...

The battle of Edgehill was fought in Warwickshire between the Royalist forces of King Charles I and the Parliamentarian army under the command of the Duke of Essex, but it ended inconclusively at nightfall with heavy casualties on both ...

The trial began on 18 October 1910 and concluded on 22 October with the jury finding Crippen guilty of murder after just twenty-seven minutes of deliberations, having heard a case that relied heavily on forensic evidence including partial human remains discovered at his ...

The poorly equipped forces of the People's Crusade, who lacked cohesive leadership, were quickly overwhelmed by the experienced Seljuk cavalry with the battle turning into a massacre where tens of thousands of crusaders were ...

One of the key features of the Treaty of 1818 was the establishment of the 49th parallel as the boundary between the United States and British North America, from the Lake of the Woods in Minnesota in the east to the Rocky Mountains in the ...

They robbed three banks in St. Albans with the objective of seizing supplies and forcing the Union Army to divert forces from the ...

Félicette survived the flight after being secured inside a specially designed capsule on top of a Véronique AG1 rocket, which reached an altitude of about 157 ...