The Copts were (and remain) so devoted to Michael that they established 12 feasts in his honor, one per month, to be observed ...

Cartographers placed invented towns on their maps to snare plagiarists who tried to steal their work. Boston emerged as the home of American globemaking, later to fall to the lithographic printing ...

The Tampa Bay History Center has lots of maps, including one now on display from 1524 that's the first to ever show Florida.

Brooklyn, Illinois, is the oldest, and one of the few surviving, majority-Black incorporated towns in the U.S. Archaeologists ...

The Cadastre of Orange is an ancient plan that shows the Roman centuriations (land distributions) that extended across the ...

But these shows would be hot tickets at any time of year; throw holiday season into the mix and they're going to book up fast ...

Neuroscientists at the University of Barcelona set about on a search for brain areas involved in chess-related tasks so that ...

In 1866, a gentleman and his family by the name of Gonner came to America. He was a talented civil engineer who was born in Pfaffental, a suburb of Luxembourg. Choosing a career as a construction ...

The answer to that question is the contributions of one Victor Marie Hugo. Of all the mad lads in history, Hugo was perhaps one of the maddest … and it’s hard to find other singular words to describe ...

NASA and Jet Propulsion Laboratory officials gave a sneak peek into the upcoming Europa Clipper mission, the first NASA ...

Electronic Stability Control (ESC) is a game-changing system that combats loss of traction, particularly in adverse weather ...

Rupert Parker looks for kicks on Route 66 I’m driving the length of Missouri, in search of Route 66, which was invented here ...