Out of all places to stick your head into, a particle accelerator would rank among the worst. Yet, on that fateful day of 13 July 1978, thir...
The Colosseum was the Roman Empire’s largest amphitheater, but it was not the largest stadium. That title belonged to Circus Maximus, situat...
For four decades from 1917 through the late 1950s, Boston Herald-Traveler photographer Leslie Jones covered every major and minor events in...
The story of Pygmalion, from ancient Greek mythology, is well known. Pygmalion was a sculptor who fell in love with his own creation, which ...
On the north bank of River Thames, just across the iconic O2 arena (formerly known as the Millennium Dome), stands London’s only lighthouse....
Digging tunnels is probably among the most toughest engineering projects the ancient people undertook, because it required mastering several...
For a few hours just before dawn on the night of 4 February 1993, a giant spotlight, 5 kilometers in diameter, raced across Europe from we...
Scattered across the English countryside and in many former British colonies, especially northeastern United States—an area historically kno...
You can’t get around Bahrain without spotting at least one burial mound. They appear like small conical hills, and they usually occur in gro...
Computer technology from yesteryears look comically primitive and bulky. One popular image frequently shared in social media sites show a ...
