As strange as it may seem, many discoveries have been made purely by chance or by 'mistake'. And that is exactly what happened in the Czech Republic. Some hikers, while climbing in ...

The reluctant empress known as "Sisi" painstakingly crafted her image through portraits and photographs, ensuring she would ...

Under its longest-serving editor, Graydon Carter, Vanity Fair was that rare thing – a New York society magazine that published serious journalism. @PeterPeteryork looks at what Carter got right. Peter ...

You don't have to spy from space to know Elon Musk is growing his business empire in Texas, but it shows just how massive his impact is becoming. This week, Musk announced he plans to step back ...

About 100 people gathered at the Nassau County Executive and Legislative Building in New York on April 22, 2025, to rally in support of offshore wind after the Trump administration halted construction ...

Austro-Hungarian Empire would have captured Serbia long ago, if it was free from the giant Russian Empire. To mitigate the fear, the Austro-Hungarian Empire allied with Germany. However, the Russian ...

Mendel Mueller, a Jew born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was incarcerated in two Nazi concentration camps: Buchenwald in northern Germany and Auschwitz in Poland. An investigation of the ...

In 1524, hundreds of thousands of peasants across Germany took up arms against their social superiors. Peter Marshall investigates the causes and consequences of the German Peasants’ War, the largest ...