Manchester United continue to count the cost of their on-field struggles, with it being reported that the Red Devils face ...

We revisit the Fashoda Incident - a remote showdown on the Upper Nile that nearly dragged Britain and France into total war in 1898. We follow the French race to Faschoda, the brutal journey across ...

Germany entered World War I confident and united — and ended it starving, divided, and defeated. Follow the journey from the ...

The Trumbull Motor Car Company is one of many long-forgotten car brands that launched in Connecticut back when cars were ...

Ilse Neumann was born just days before the beginning of World War I, on July 23, 1914. Having lived through two wars, plus ...

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Instant coffee was popularized during World War I. Find out why soldiers on the frontlines used to call it by a different ...

Strategas is at pains to emphasize that investors should interpret the U.S. maneuver in Venezuela as "a marker of no return," symbolizing a "permanent disconnect" of trust in the system of ...

Just after 2 a.m. on July 30, 1916, a freight car loaded with TNT exploded at a munitions depot on Black Tom Island in New York Harbor. The blast registered as a 5.5 magnitude earthquake and was felt ...

In December 1914, British and German soldiers fighting World War I unofficially stopped combat to celebrate Christmas. Known as the Christmas Truce, the moment saw enemies sing carols, exchange gifts, ...

Christmas doesn’t stop a war, but it does put a bright circle around the date, making the distance from home and loved ones louder. That’s why the 1914 Christmas Truce keeps coming back on screen. For ...

On Christmas Eve in 1914, a light snowfall began to dust the Western Front, unable to settle on the muddy, waterlogged ground that had been obliterated by months of warfare. Meanwhile, as the smell of ...