The Dutch had not been able to pump in a level of resources to be able to match the expansion and strength of the British Colonies, and had probably damaged ... The United Netherlands Company, a ...

In a way, Alaska existed in the Russian imagination long before it had a place on the Russian map. Russian fur ... and settlement. The British lost the American colonies during this time, the ...

Despite being nothing more than superstition, the continuing belief in 13's malign influence is so ... our Germanic heritage and a number of British scholars translated the Nordic myths for ...

For a small group of islands, the United Kingdom gets its fair share of rain. Whether it’s hard and horizontal, fine drizzle, or a sudden, wet-to-the-undies downpour, the Brits know a thing or ...

What could possibly dim the sunset glow that gilds the perennial boyhood of the three old reprobates as they drift through the timeless little Yorkshire town? For the hitherto irrepressible Compo it's ...

A poor Kolkata neighborhood lost power during a heat wave, unlike a nearby luxury mall. The resulting protest exposed extreme heat’s unequal toll in India.

That treaty, adopted by the Continental Congress in 1778, promised that the Lenape nation would be given statehood if it ...

Due to return for Series 14 Series 6, Episode 2 repeated tomorrow at 12:55am on Gold Streaming rank this week: 2,302 When Lee and Lucy are asked to cover for Anna on more than one occasion, so that ...

View all monuments in NYC Parks, as well as temporary public art installations on our NYC Public Art Map and Guide ... Day (commemorating the departure of the last British soldier from the colonies in ...