After 165 years, journalist Herbert Ingram's pocket watch, lost in the Lady Elgin sinking on Lake Michigan, has returned to ...

A skeleton found in London records a brutal killing about 1200 years ago, thought to be a rare example of a judicial ...

From a royal retreat in India to centuries-old onsen lodges in Japan, these timeless historic stays continue to welcome ...

By Damian Flanagan A few weeks ago, I attended a rather unusual concert in Cambridge, England. All the pieces of music dated ...

The Great Fire of 1666 destroyed central London. Several intrepid designers saw the rebuilding process as an opportunity to fix the old city's problems. None of these plans were ever adopted.

The book does suggest that the great fire of London in 1666, the geology of New Jersey ... key” to why patterned brick houses became popular in South Jersey, he said. Before then, most residential ...

In early September 1666, while London’s Great Fire was still burning ... back into the familiar pattern of life it had known before the fire. There were some unexpected legacies: The catastrophe ...

Although fire-fighting techniques had become more advanced and buildings more widely separated than they were in the London of 1666, the Chicago fire was a much faster spreading and more ...

If you had been in London on September 2, 1666 ... before serving out his apprenticeship at Pudding Lane. That nine-year apprenticeship (unusually long), had ended in 1664, so at the time of the ...