Until her death 85 years ago on January 13, 1940, Matilda was the last surviving passenger on the last-ever slave ship bound from the ... And while the 15th Amendment of 1869 prohibited the ...

Meet Frenchman Jules Brunet, the real-life last samurai. Fighting alongside the Shogunate rebels who wanted to maintain ...

The Founding of Australia 1788 was painted in 1937 by Algernon Talmage. It was commissioned for the sesquicentenary celebrations of 1938. The painting depicts the moment that Captain Arthur Phillip ...

its job is to keep the ship afloat and, crucially, balanced. Otherwise, it will capsize. (According to the Oxford English Dictionary, even-keeled was first used as an adjective in an 1869 issue of ...

The method of signaling used between the ship and the land is that now universally adopted in working all long submarine linesthe reflecting galvanometer The principle of this most delicate ...

By the 1870s, when steamships were replacing sailing ships, especially after the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, and when undersea telegraphy ... Australia attacked the Imperial German base at ...

Earlier, he covered Eastern Europe for the Financial Times. He speaks Hungarian, German, French and Dutch. When Benjamin Netanyahu meets U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday, the Israeli prime ...

During the panic of the disaster, the four chaplains organized evacuees, distributed life jackets from storage, and tended to ...

PFC Peter Dudenich of Ambridge and PVT William Patrick Nairn of Aliquippa are among 58 Pennsylvania soldiers who died the morning of Jan. 26, 1944, when their ship struck a Nazi mine being remembered ...

American Legion Post 369 in St. John plans to honor the Four Chaplains who saved civilians and soldiers on the SS Dorchester, ...

German institutions depart X, a day after Musk's Weidel talk 01/10/2025 January 10, 2025 More than 60 German and Austrian academic organizations say they will leave the messaging platform X owned ...

The US Dollar Index (DXY) starts the week lower as market participants reposition ahead of a data-heavy week. EUR/USD recovers but will German inflation derail the rally? The DXY is at a key ...