The Dutch purchased Manhattan Island and founded New Amsterdam as the capital of their colony of New Netherland. Their claim extended up the Hudson River and into Connecticut. Later, they added to it ...

For nearly 50 years, Naval Support Facility Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean has been a critical part of the American global ...

While the French fleet commanded by Admiral Comte de Grasse blocked the Chesapeake and held the British fleet at bay, American and French troops trapped British forces at Yorktown in the fall of 1781.

Although Cillian Murphy read the acclaimed Irish book “Small Things Like These” during the Covid-19 lockdown and was “floored ...

When European explorers first began sailing across the Atlantic Ocean, they were searching for new routes to China and the ...

Romulus will soon burst into your living room. The seventh “Alien” installment will begin streaming on Hulu on Nov. 21. The ...

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- Irish-born actor Pierce Brosnan said his latest movie, The Last Rifleman, in theaters Friday, ...

By analyzing microfossils — fossils about the size of a thumbnail — within the limestone, researchers found that the tiny ...

The members of the commonwealth were former British colonies and felt it was time Britain paid reparations for the suffering ...

KEMI BADENOCH HAS been announced as the new leader of the UK’s Conservative Party. The Shadow Housing Secretary was selected ...

Our family historian was Tom’s Aunt Ruth Mehuron McGill who traveled the world to study the family lineage. In part one of ...