Which makes Botín incongruous. This restaurant, a few steps from Madrid’s Plaza Mayor, is recognised by the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s oldest. This year it celebrates its 300th ...

In 1888, accompanied by the rolling creak of a mule-hauled wagon, a Georgia farmer chewed on dust and inched toward a homestead in Old Greer County ... later redrawn on the map, became southwest ...

During periods of flooding, it is still possible to see the old channels when they fill with water. Traders from Pennsylvania recorded trading with native Americans on the island in 1765.

Historic sites include Fort St-Louis ... cane harvesting and rum distilling thanks to artifacts dating back to 1765. Several miles south of Ste-Marie is Trinité, a gateway to the Caravelle ...

Samuel Johnson was an English author and lexicographer who lived between the years of 1709 and 1784. He is best remembered by ...

This is part of a historical series. The following is information from a 1974 article. The article is from the files of the ...

Join the journey following a 117-year-old map that leads to the lost farming community of Pitts Quarters and its hidden ruins.

The trove, in toto, consists of over 635,000 maps, 15,000 atlases and 250 globes, with some extremely old relics on display, ...

The restoration of these two maps demonstrates true collaboration between different railway industry partners.” Tim Hedley-Jones, executive director at the Railway Heritage Trust said: “These historic ...

ST. LOUIS — As residents throughout Missouri continue picking up the pieces from Friday's storms, local meteorologists have gained a better idea of the sheer scale of the historic tornado that ...

Mentions of the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise in ancient Chinese poetry have revealed missing information ...