Funny idioms have hilarious origins, and their meanings differ entirely from the words that make them up. Read this post to ...

On March 30, 1867, U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and Russian envoy Baron Edouard de Stoeckl signed the Treaty of Cession. With a stroke of a pen, Tsar Alexander II had ceded Alaska, his ...

The Grand Jury of Middlesex County Court, in England, was presented with a work that corrupted public morals to such an ...

The president-elect has said he covets Greenland for its size. He could be misinterpreting that based on a well-known mapping ...

Plans for a gin distillery at the historic Balnamore Mill have been submitted to Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council.

The blood-soaked history of Scotch-Irish settlers on the early American frontier—and its echoes in today’s politics.

Artificial intelligence promises to reshape human existence. Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, argues it has the potential to unleash unprecedented human potential and the most efficient and ...

President-elect Donald Trump is preparing to dust off a series of centuries-old laws and legal theories to drive his ...

A Man of Parts and Learning” is the first winner of this year’s Sidney Awards, which I created in honor of philosopher and ...

From Ancient Greece right through to modern medicine in Australia today, the treatment of women in science started badly and ...