The U.S. is home to some towering monuments. Each architecture has its own story and record-breaking height. But which one ...

Today in History for March 27: ...

Joy, awe and wonder' -The Bible is going on show in the museum's basement, behind a thick steel door. Sealed inside a glass cabinet, it is the only object in the bare, darkened room.It is open on the ...

From 1836 to 1850 the potato crop which would normally feed about ... was employed to develop a new line of product which at this stage was mainly produced in France. This included fruit pastilles and ...

Bruno Dumont’s action-fantasy satire is all the greater for its loving, quasi-documentary attention to ordinary life.

France had around 200,000 cafes nationwide. It’s down to 36,000 today. Most of the bistros that disappeared were in small, rural towns. Up until now, it’s been virtually impossible to bring them back, ...

In a family’s history, there may be one ancestor or relative with a particularly valorous life story. For one local Southern ...

Hundreds of civilians are believed to have died while fleeing east to Louisiana during the Texas Revolution 189 years ago.

Filmed as war raged across Europe, Children of Paradise is a masterpiece: a nostalgic love letter to Paris, the theatre and ...

The work is expected to take about six weeks, and the words will be replaced by an unspecified set of city-sponsored murals.

Many returned to the battlefield, and earned medals for their service. Etta became the first American woman to be held by the ...

“He was a lonely person,” Kordonsky says. “He was full of fears and complexes. While he was as funny as they get, he didn't ...