It is recorded that during the 1700s the British Navy needed an estimated 25000 kilometres of rope annually. In Taranaki, flax growing became known as "Green Gold" and the industry grew quickly as ...

Not because it was the day the Government released its “overdue” Aotearoa New Zealand histories curriculum, but for what happened on that day in 1860, when the first shots of the Taranaki Wars ...

Pirate ships were a haven for rough, tough, crusty men who defied the law and spent their days murdering, raping and ...

It’s the reason why even from the observatory deck of the Empire State Building we now see 1 percent of the stars those in 1700s-era Manhattan would have seen. The International Dark-Sky ...

Based on the gothic soap opera from the late 1960s and early 1970s, Dark Shadows follows Barnabas Collins, a wealthy aristocrat living in 1700s Maine. When he breaks the heart of Angelique (who ...

Sopori could have been named after the Sobaipuri, a Pima Indian group named by Father Eusebio Kino in 1700s. Or it could have come from the Spanish word sopor, meaning peaceful or drowsy.