He arrived in California in 1876, settling first in the Stockton area and then in Humboldt County in 1883. In 1885, he ...

Michael Hiltzik tells California's story with a journalist’s reluctance to take anything at face value and a distrust of ...

Flooding, famine, plagues. Historical documents from diaries to parish registers detail the dramatic impacts of the Little ...

The Little Ice Age was a period of global cooling that began during around 1300 CE and lasted until about 1850. Average ...

Records from 500 years ago document floods, famine and death in 16th century Transylvania due to wild weather swings during the Little Ice Age.

Were you told that gold mining in southern Africa started after 1852? Or that the export of iron, steel, copper and gold ...

Ayo Baje Today, it is a pleasure to celebrate Sir Oyoze Baje, a man whose life is a testament to intellectual curi­osity, firm dedication, and a spirit that refuses to be confined by boundaries. As ...

Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN. The Web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated ...

This Orange Lady is committed to the survival of the dynasty and the image of the family. In Friesland, the Nassau-Dietz family continued the Orange Line after the death of King-Stadholder William ...

JUNEAU — Senior forward Kaden Fillmore and senior guard Easton Wolter each scored 15 points as Dodgeland defeated ...

The director of the Romanian National History Museum has been dismissed following the high ... the museum and further inquiries in locations such as Alkmaar, Witmarsum in Friesland, Groningen, Assen, ...