“The infantry was marching along the sides of the road, as it always does, in two long, thin lines…. It was two long lines, thin lines as far as you could see and then it was faces looking ...

In the 16th and 17th centuries, even something as simple as a mole could have had you accused of being a witch.

A 16th Century coin dropped by a thief plundering a Roman fort is among the treasures unearthed during a six-month dig. The ...

Texas -The Nevada Army National Guard’s 17th Sustainment Brigade recently completed a rigorous training exercise organized by the 1st Theater Sustainment Command and the 120th Infantry Brigade ...

Many have requested that the Tallahassee Democrat republish Gerald Ensley's Local Names series. So here, today, for the first ...

But in the 17th century, divisions and gaps were becoming more and more ... When 11,000 Swedes, mainly infantry, faced 3,600 Poles, mainly winged hussars, at the Battle of Kircholm in 1605, they were ...

William Lee invents the knitting machine. First human flight, according to popular myth. Inspired by the Greek myth of Icarus, Brother Elmer (a monk at Malmesbury Abbey) creates a glider from wood and ...

DrShah has explained some of the conditions doctors are now seeing in hospitals - including rickets that surged in the UK hundreds of years ago and scury that was common in the 17th century.

This rate was to increase during the next century thanks particularly to the birth of various nonconformist sects. Between 1660 and 1730 around 545 books were published, the majority of which were ...

Now, the way I can gauge that this is a print taken in the 1780s, rather than a lifetime impression, is, first and foremost, that it's an 18th-century paper rather than a 17th-century paper.

Basseterre, the capital of Saint Kitts and Nevis, is a historic town with well-preserved Georgian architecture, including Independence Square, the Circus, the 17th-century British Fort Saint ...

He believes it was lost after 1575 and probably before the middle of the 17th Century. Marta Alberti-Dunn ... including the cavalry and infantry barracks. She said next year's work would involve ...