This is the thirteenth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in ...

This pseudo-cleric averred that he could control the child’s illness. In fact, he did seem to have some marginal soothing ...

The regal tradition of scratching signatures in windowpanes is long established and well known. The windows – particularly when in rooms of royal residences – formed a kind of living ‘guestbook’, ...

Grand Duke George Romanov, an heir to the House of Romanov, and Princess Victoria have announced the gender of their second ...

S.F. comic and publicist Lisa Geduldig launches 'Resistance Comedy' at the Eclectic Box in the Mission on Sunday, March 23.

The PM's pronouncement that Britain need not choose between the US and Europe is 'downright reckless' and an 'exercise in dangerous delusion', argues Clive Lewis ...

1687 – French explorer La Salle was murdered by his own men while searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, in the ...

or the Tauride Palace and Gardens, the original site of the first Russian parliament, the Imperial State Duma. Near the Russian Museum in the Admiralteysky District is a collection of luxury ...

Fifty years on, the 1975 Land Proclamation—born of student fervor, rural uprisings, and even tragic clashes—enters its golden jubilee with barely a whisper.

Also known as Queen Min, Myeongseong was the wife of Gojong, the 26th king of Joseon, a Korean dynastic kingdom, and was known as an influential figure in the palace. In one of the letters ...

1976: Buckingham Palace announces that Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon are to separate after 16 years of marriage. On the same day, Paul Kossoff, guitarist with Free and Back Street Crawler dies ...