The barbed wire placed in Cyprus’ buffer zone near the villages of Akaki, Peristerona and Astromeritis to kerb migrant flows ...

Barbed wire changed what the Homestead Act could not. Until it was developed, the prairie was an unbounded space, more like an ocean than a stretch of arable land. Private ownership of land wasn't ...

Stretching 440 miles from the Swiss border to the North Sea, the line of trenches, dug-outs and barbed-wire fences moved very little between 1914-1918, despite attempts on both sides to break through.