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Joe Mozingo, Tribune News Service Hernan Cortes fled the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan in 1520 under blistering military assault, losing the bulk of his troops on his escape to the...
Argentine researchers have announced the discovery of fossilized skin on the remains of the wing of a 43-million-year-old penguin on Marambio Island in the Antarctic. The fossil was...
The dance floor of Claerchens Ballhaus has seen it all: from its first tangos in 1913 to balls for war widows to the Cuban rumba banned by the Nazis....
Scarlet shackles sit peacefully on display in front of a sad, gray backdrop. The now rusted leg irons once locked human ankles during 18th century voyages from Africa to...
A pair of boots worn by Napoleon during his final exile in St. Helena are to go under the hammer in Paris later this month. The size 40 boots...
To the beat of drums and the clip clop of horses' hooves, the crowd of African-Americans dressed in period costume marched down a street on Friday in southeastern Louisiana,...
Gulf Today, Staff Reporter His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, has invited UAE residents to take part in UAE...
Treading her way along the muddy banks of the River Thames, Lara Maiklem spots a 16th-century clothespin which she wipes and adds to a row of others puncturing her...
The remains of a prehistoric primate that lived high in the Andes 20 million years ago and was so small it could fit in your hand is helping scientists...
Carefully raking through soil in suffocating heat at an archaeological dig site in historic Jamestown, Charde Reid is working hard to retrace bits of the life of Angela, who...
