The hard truth, supported by documents and maps I will present here, is that Scarborough Shoal (Bajo de Masinloc to us) was never a part of Philippine territory. The territory that Spain ceded to the ...

New research has identified a dinosaur "mummy zone" in a series of ravines near Lusk, Wyoming. It's produced two mummies of a fleshy dinosaur with ...

Mapmakers of the 19th century sought to render both the natural and political worlds with clarity and beauty.

Australian boomerangs come in a variety of shapes and sizes. The classic symmetrical boomerang is designed to return in a ...

If there’s anything that defines music in the 21st century, it’s constant change. We live in an era when your next favorite song could come from anywhere — all over the stylistic map, all over the ...

IF Mary Ellen Best were to return to York, she’d hardly recognise the street where she was born since the house itself has, in fact, disappeared. She was born in October 1809, in a three-storey ...

A 225-year-old former pub building will be demolished after councillors said revised plans to save it were unviable. Preston City Council had intended to knock down The Tithebarn, which closed in 2016 ...

Discovered in a remote Ottoman town in 1884, the Madaba Map is both a masterpiece of Byzantine design and a working map of Jerusalem and the sixth-century Middle East. A detail of the Madaba Map ...

As climate change threatens global food security today, the story of a Nova Scotia potato blight 180 years ago offers a sobering historical parallel. This same plant disease, the destructive water ...

A period of rapid social, political, and aesthetic change, the French nineteenth century saw the emergence of play as a hallmark of modern life. Paris’s expansive public parks, its numerous theatres ...