Miss Macao, a Consolidated Model 28 Catalina seaplane, crashed into the sea during a scheduled flight to Hong Kong. There was only one survivor, but his story didn’t add up.

Flickr/joncutrer Continental Congress Sets the Dollar as the Official U.S. Currency On July 6, 1785, the Continental Congress ...

Goa is home to some of India’s most magnificent churches. Scattered around the state, these churches reflect its rich ...

For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a ...

Gunga Tavares remembers July 5, 1975, as an unusually hot day when thousands of Cape Verdeans made their way through the ...

Discover how Portugal initiated its colonial empire through maritime exploration, beginning with the 1415 conquest of Ceuta ...

A new survey has revealed strong support in Angola and Cape Verde for Portugal to issue a formal apology for its colonial ...

A majority of respondents in Angola and Cape Verde believe Portugal should apologise for its colonial past and return artefacts and other items looted during that era, according to a survey released ...

Two 16th-century texts about the Americas by Jewish writers reflect the complicated place Jews and ‘conversos’ held in the early modern world.

In the first Spanish and Portuguese colonies, however, Jews were not allowed to openly practice their faith. Secret spirituality One of these conversos was Luis de Carvajal.