English, with about a third of its words rooted in French, is a prime example of how language transforms based on society.

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"I'm a history major," said Barnes. "One of the times it really got to me was when I was looking through an old arrest report book. We were trying to find when Wyatt Walker and Harry Blake were ...

Clumps of capital letters at the beginning, and sometimes also the end, signify the dogs’ achievements in various sports.

For decades, writing letters in English exams to an imaginary English ... Miranda.” 32-year-old Miranda, who comes from California, told the Global Times on Sunday that she learned about Li ...

Ten years ago in Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, metal detectorists stumbled upon pieces of silver and gold. Researchers ...

“If you look at Abigail Adams' letters to her husband (President John Adams ... Not only was I brushing up on my cursive, but my old English as well,” she said. The Archive’s Isaacs is clear that ...

The fate of the settlers who founded the "Lost Colony of Roanoke" in what is now North Carolina remains unknown.

Ulysses S. Grant, our 18th president, entered the earthly stage as Hiram Ulysses Grant. When his name was mistakenly entered on the West Point register as Ulysses Simpson Grant, he eagerly ...