Have you ever thought about where your favourite dishes came from – or that there was ever a time before they existed? We dig ...

As First Lord of the Admiralty since October 1911, Winston Churchill was political head of the Royal Navy. Although, vigorous ...

Under Rome, Puglia flourished as a grain-producing region, with cities like Bari and Lecce thriving. After the Western Roman ...

The Alien Enemies Act traces back to the late 1700s, when the Federalists ... Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria. U.S.-born women married to any people born in these places were ...

The hardy, beautiful azalea is a mainstay in gardens worldwide. In the language of flowers, they symbolize temperance and ...

Archaeologists identified the fragments as a cabasset helmet, a type of helmet commonly worn by European foot soldiers between 1550 and 1700 ... Habsburg empire against the Ottoman empire and ...

But with the spread of the Ottoman Empire in the 1400s ... The more you tasted, the more you wanted. In 1700 the average Englishman consumed 4 pounds a year. In 1800 the common man ate 18 pounds ...

Its zenith was during the 1700s and 1800s, when tin mining boomed here ... Most importantly, this city was the capital of the Western Roman Empire throughout the 5th century – other early Christian ...

This was not the first time Montenegro had been its own country. It was the first nation to emerge out of the slowly crumbling Ottoman Empire in the 1700’s. After World War I, it was annexed by Serbia ...