Numerous ships of the Royal Navy were sunk with 1,500 seamen drowned. The Eddystone lighthouse was destroyed. The country took years to recover. But there were no steam engines, no motor cars ...

The Fire of 1807 at the Eddystone Lighthouse Thunderstorm. Image via Depositphotos. The Eddystone Lighthouse, located off the coast of Devon, England, was struck by lightning in 1807. The resulting ...

In the 1980s, as Brazil restored its democratic regime, Oscar Niemeyer returned from exile. Confronted with a country where the population had spread to the outskirts of cities, Niemeyer continued ...

Edison Lighthouse was an early 70s British pop-rock group that was primarily devised by songwriters and record producers Barry Mason and Tony McCaulay as a showcase for veteran session singer Tony ...

Mysterious Illness Claims 53 Lives With Many Dying Within Hours After Onset Of Symptoms A mysterious illness has led to 53 fatalities, with many dying within hours of developing symptoms. The outbreak ...

The Seasonal climate summary, usually published in the first week of the following month, lists the main features of the weather in Tasmania using the most timely and accurate information available on ...

Rainfall totals in February were below to very much below average for most of Tasmania, and close to average for parts of the east. Tasmania's area-averaged rainfall total in February was 31.4 mm, 51% ...

Over two years, a man named York trekked some 8,000 miles from St. Louis to the Pacific Northwest and back, hunting, tracking, foraging and, at least once, voting as a Black man held in bondage by ...