Maximilian, a young Austrian prince of the house of Hapsburg, somewhat naively accepted the offer to rule a distant and ...

Multilingual means being able to speak more than two languages. John Quincy Adams leads the pack, having been able to speak 9 ...

T he United States has recently witnessed challenges to the right to due process and a fair trial, including a recent ...

Andrew Allen (1740-1825), the second son of Allentown founder William Allen, spent many years in England hoping to regain the ...

Gaston Nievas & Thomas Piketty pieced together database on global trade flows from 1800 to 1914 and 1970 to 2025, and found ...

We have been deceived—again and again—into believing that U.S. democracy was born as a noble product of collective will. The ...

Invented in Hawaii, surfing gained popularity in the United States and Australia in the 1950s before becoming a global ...

Conflicts over land and territory will likely proliferate as the accelerating climate crisis collides with rising ...

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said ICE deported a self-eating cannibal but provided no evidence. This plays into ...

As oil companies push for drilling on the Amazon coast, an underwater war silences the ocean’s most vocal creatures.

A Muslim immigrant, born in Africa, with roots in India, clinched an unofficial win in the Democratic primary for mayor.

Beyond the storied charm and colonial trappings of Quito’s Old Town, there is plenty more to explore in the Ecuadorian capital. Given its dramatic topograp ...