Science in ancient Egypt and Greece followed a similar pattern: It thrived during good times and fell off in periods of ...

The European Union has achieved something historic. Fifty-five years passed between the first and the second Peace of Thorn, ...

Today in History for Aug. 12: In 1615, the first mass in Ontario was celebrated by Father Le Caron in a Huron village near Thunder Bay.

BC: Marc Antony (Marcus Antonius) commits suicide aged 53. 10BC: Birth of Emperor Claudius (Tberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus).

Starting in the late 1700s, a bloody series of conflicts between competing kingdoms jostling for power ultimately resulted in the unification of the Hawaiian islands in 1810. That drawn-out process ...

Former Food Network star Paula Deen has abruptly closed the Savannah, Georgia, restaurant she started with her two sons ...

One hundred years ago, illusionist P.T. Selbit put a woman in a box on the stage of London's Finsbury Park Empire and sawed ...