On the afternoon of April 25, 2007, Michele Kiesewetter , a 22-year-old police officer in the German city of Heilbronn, was shot dead in a p...
In the Puy-de-Dôme department of Auvergne, in the heart of France, lies Thiers—a city renowned throughout the country as the historic capita...
During the late Eastern Han dynasty, a brilliant Chinese physician named Hua Tuo —renowned for his pioneering medical techniques, surgical s...
On the night of November 18–19, 1421, a powerful storm surge from the North Sea broke through poorly maintained dikes in the County of Holla...
Just after 5 o’clock on the morning of 11 November 1918, British, French, and German officials gathered in a railway carriage in the Compièg...
Before the age of steam, all early submarines relied on human muscle for propulsion. The first functional submarine, built by Dutch inventor...
A Roman-era latrine in Timgad in Algeria . Credit: Wikimedia Commons Throughout history, governments have found creative ways to raise...
Camouflage is a vital strategy in warfare—whether on land, at sea, or in the air. During the First and Second World Wars, many Allied ships—...
In the glittering world of 19th-century theatre, where talent was prized and ridicule could end a career, one man defied convention and beca...
Gottfried "Götz" von Berlichingen was no ordinary knight. A formidable figure in 16th-century Germany, he earned both fame and in...
