More than 270 swimmers will contest the inaugural Queensland Country Championships in Rockhampton this week. Forty-five clubs ...

Did the Trojan War really happen? Scholars continue to debate this, but establishing the true chronology of the legend might be the solution.

One hundred seventy-seven B-24 Liberators took off from Libya on August 1, 1943, bound for the Romanian oil refineries at ...

A thoughtful look at modern classics that confront friendship, history, guilt, and survival, proving that serious literature ...

History is littered with ideas that seemed great at the time but turned out to be less than stellar. These “bad ideas” often provide us with a mix of amusement and cautionary tales. From financial ...

The Vietnam War was one of the most complex and controversial conflicts of the 20th century, leaving lasting scars on both countries that lived through it. Fought mostly in villages and jungles, it ...

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Is *** strike on this boat near Venezuela in September *** war crime? Members of the public and some in Congress are asking that exact question relating to the US military firing *** second missile ...

The Great Emu War of 1932 is possibly the most absurd military campaign in history — largely because the birds won. The trouble began when World War I veterans who had been granted farmland on the ...

A Great Emu War in Australia, a "meat shower" in Kentucky, and a medieval trial involving the exhumed corpse of a pope are just a few of the strangest events from history. History classes tend to ...