Explore the fascinating history of countries that vanished after World War 1. Discover how the global landscape was reshaped ...

Explore the gripping tale of how a single bullet set the stage for World War 1. Dive into history as we unravel the events ...

From historic Everest summits to Jane Goodall’s chimpanzee research, National Geographic magazine and its famed covers have ...

In 1862, jewelry engraver and amateur photographer William H. Mumler was developing a self-portrait in his Boston studio when a ghostly image began to surface. Just below his own image in the photo ...

Never before had death affected so many people at once, and taken so many young men in the prime of their life.

With Operation Barbarossa, the forces of the Third Reich commenced Hitler’s plan to destroy the Soviet Union and conquer its ...

Daniel Jackson, a 20-year-old Australian, is the self-declared “president” of the “Free Republic of Verdis,” located on a patch of land in the Danube River between Croatia and Serbia.

The last of the ships that some credit with winning World War II for the Allies has plowed through the waters of the Midwest, where people got a chance to visit it. A type of ship that's credited with ...

Masked thieves stole priceless jewels from the Louvre on Sunday morning. The Paris museum has suffered a string of successful art heists, dating back to the theft of the Mona Lisa in 1911.

New appetite- suppressing drugs are booming in the West while famine claims lives in Gaza. In both cases, food is a weapon – ...

Two years after Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack, Israel is torn. Its war in Gaza has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians. But it has not freed all Israeli hostages from Hamas, and the trauma lives on. An ...

When Anna Gabulya saw a television report of a POW’s return to Hungary a half-century after he served during World War II, she noticed the resemblance immediately. She saw in András Toma a likeness ...