About the Author Dr. Ivan Bassov is a Russian-American-Israeli Palestinian—because Palestine is Israel, and truth demands clarity. A leading inventor in computer science and a graduate of the ...

The French suffered 476 casualties in the Battle of Puebla, while the outnumbered Mexicans only suffered 339. May 5 is celebrated in Mexican-American communities throughout the United States as ...

The City of San Antonio is adding additional road closures around downtown to accommodate the incredibly popular Battle of Flowers and Flambeau parades, which are following the same route as last ...

The 134th Battle of Flowers parade is Friday, May 2 at 10:30 a.m. The parade honors the heroic spirit of the patriots of the Alamo and commemorates the victory of San Jacinto. This year's theme is ...

Rieko Tamaki, 90, a resident of Naha, still remembers the final moments of her then 14-year-old brother's life during the 1945 Battle of Okinawa. "He died in agony, crying out, ‘Give me water.’ ...

This dish was part of the menu when a group of prominent scientists and businessmen dined inside the model of an iguanodon in London’s Crystal Palace in 1853. Canada’s Carney sends a message ...

Russia and Ukraine have battled over the atmospheric seascapes of the celebrated 19th-century painter Ivan Aivazovsky. Of Armenian descent, Aivazovsky (1817-1900) spent most of his life in ...

(See also: How the Battle of Waterloo changed the world.) This 1874 oil painting by Félix Philippoteaux shows one of the last French cavalry charges against the British infantry during the Battle ...

Ivan Konstantin Aivazovsky was a Russian-Armenian Romantic painter known for his depictions of seascapes, for which he is considered one of the greatest marine artists in history. He was born on July ...

Moonlit Night, a painting by Ivan Aivazovsky, is being auctioned in Russia. The artwork was illegally transferred to the Simferopol Art Museum at the start of the Russian occupation of Crimea in 2014, ...