With its ports on the North Sea, it was well-positioned to develop into a seafaring country that could compete with its competitors in lucrative colonial trade ... Revolution that united all of the 13 ...

It’s hard to think of a less popular insect than the yellowjacket, maligned because they can sting. First, I should be clear that “yellowjacket” is an imprecise, generic common name that conceals a ...

During the Revolutionary period, American money often contained messages about unity. The image of thirteen interlocking rings on Continental money was intended to illustrate the solidarity of the ...

But that's not the way slavery was established in colonial America ... was not one that was life-long. A slave could become free by converting to Christianity. The first Virginia colonists ...

For weeks, the French Caribbean island of Martinique has been the site of at-times violent protests over high living costs ...

One of the original 13 colonies and briefly home to the nation’s capital ... including several historic sites that shaped Tubman’s life. Start your visit at the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad ...

Country Life 13 November 2024 looks at The King's Royal Warrant holders, visits Apethorpe Palace and takes in Britain's hidden cultural hotspots. This week's issue of Country Life — and how to ...

As migration figures for the nineteenth century show, British colonies ... out of 13 applicants and, though previous military and police service assured employment with the colonial police ...

“GROWING IN THE mud, and yet so clean, the lotus is a symbol of purity,” writes the Sri Lankan historian Ananda K. Coomaraswamy in his 1913 book “The Arts and Crafts of India & Ceylon.” The lotus pool ...

But that's not the way slavery was established in colonial America ... was not one that was life-long. A slave could become free by converting to Christianity. The first Virginia colonists ...