Hallsands: The Village That Fell Into The Sea
The island of Great Britain is shrinking. Every year several feet of land is washed away by the pounding waves of the Atlantic Ocean. Every ...
The island of Great Britain is shrinking. Every year several feet of land is washed away by the pounding waves of the Atlantic Ocean. Every ...
In the 15th and 16th centuries, a certain German family of merchants known as the Fuggers rose to become one of the richest and the most pow...
David Lyall held his breath as he made the first incision straight down the belly of a little mouse-like olive brown bird that lay on his de...
In central Mali, about 90 km to the east of Mopti, rises a dramatic sandstone cliff with a high plateau above and sandy semi-desert plains b...
Deep in southern Nevada’s Nye County, in the harsh, sun-drenched desert, there was once a small county named Bullfrog. It was one of the mos...
Far into the unforeseeable future, when nuclear war and biological warfare had decimated the human population, killed most living beings and...
The history of the postal system is inextricably tied to the history of transport. Advances in transportation technology have not only allow...
This humble two-storied marble-clad house in Petersburg, in the US state of Virginia, has more than 150 years of Civil War history embedded ...
Ichimura Mamoru stands in front of his museum in Kyoto. Photo credit: thornet_/Flickr In a quiet residential street in Kyoto, Japan, just ...
The United Kingdom has some 6,500 level crossings on their sprawling railway network, out of which an astounding number of them—5,000—are us...