Bastille Day made clear how what remains of a free world is adapting to a new global disorder. The United States that weighed in to beat back Hitler, then repair ...

Those watching the cultural news of the past week probably saw the festivities in France on July 14, Bastille Day, which is ...

For both women, their efforts are a small way to combat the devastation human activity has brought to monarch butterfly ...

Today in History for July 16: In 622, Prophet Mohammad fled from Mecca, where he was despised and persecuted, to the northern city of Medina, marking the day of beginning of Hegira, the Islamic ...

After the 1789 revolution, a new calendar and a new way of Divide the day. The calendar, officially adopted on ...

The French Revolution, which took place between 1789 and 1799, is one of the most significant events in the world.

The guillotine is a car to perform death sentences, consisting of a blade that, falling along an obligatory route between ...

Here is the list of the four important figures in Bastille Day history: ...

I sense the long weekend – we Sri Lankans being past-masters at combining a Thursday poya with the traditional brace of days ...

The Bayeux Tapestry, a 70-meter- (229-foot)- long medieval artwork that depicts the Norman conquest of England, will be ...

René Descartes, the founder of modern philosophy, was furiously condemned by his contemporaries. Why did they fear him?

It is a tale that still echoes through the region, with the parish church being named St Serf’s Kirk in his honour. The ...