Alternative facts have always been with us, and they've always been used to cover up uncomfortable truths. Here's some ...

In 1860, on the cusp of the Civil War, the Republican National Convention in Chicago not only took a chance on a one-term congressman named Abraham Lincoln, but introduced the nation to one of the ...

He directed his first attack against Honduras, where he is reported to have espoused the cause of the Ex-President CUBANAS, under whose flag he landed ... unable to protect British persons and ...

As Kate Middleton Enters a New Season of Her Life, She Wears a Familiar Color (As Does Her Entire Family!) New Statue of Queen Elizabeth Draws Criticism That It Doesn't Resemble the Late Monarch ...

Nor a surprise considering that he stems from Savoie, the pristine Alpine province stretching from the shores of Lake Geneva ...

The immediate effect of that act was the admission of the shipping of all nations to unrestricted competition in the British colonial trade. The field was a wide one, and the profits incalculable ...

2024 was the British flag carrier's first time exhibiting at the Farnborough Airshow. Stepping on board, I could smell the new leather. In business class, or Club Europe, there are new tables in ...

This part will provide a narrative account of the history of the dissenting academies, their origins, developments, objectives, and differences, and their contribution to Protestant dissent and ...

Eight leading business historians examine the role of British business in Iran, India, Thailand, Malaysia, China, Russian Asia, and Japan. The primary focus is on the impact of British commerce in the ...

The Economic History Review, Vol. 75, Issue. 1, p. 138. Chase-Levenson, Alex 2022. The Maltese Fulcrum: Strategy and Fantasy in the Early Nineteenth-century British Mediterranean. The Journal of ...

After the Second Opium War, Beijing was forced to also cede Kowloon in 1860, the area on the mainland ... with one even raising the old British colonial flag. In response, China passed the highly ...

and the flag for Tristan da Cunha, part of a British Overseas Territory also including Saint Helena and the Ascension Island. "It would be a bit like a Frenchman saying the Irish flag was an abuse ...