The formally feathered, flightless aquatic birds known as penguins dominate the frigid waters surrounding the subantarctic ...

"Perhaps, too, some had not even been able to completely pay for their ocean passage," Luthy writes. "Thus, a small community ...

TO the outside world, Cheryl and David Hickman have a fairytale romance. The couple first met as children but lost touch ...

Texas has become the top source of new residents for nine other states, despite its own population growth. The U.S.

The senior prelate of the Roman Catholic Church in Russia did not sign a joint statement by Christian leaders in the country ...

We often treat the past as distant. But the 18th-century Cape Colony also serves as an experiment for current-day economic ...

If you say the word “duck” to someone of my vintage or older, the first image that likely comes to their mind is the mallard.

His story is worth revisiting, touching as it does so many timely topics related to today’s discussions of Jews, Christians, America and Israel nearly two centuries after Cresson’s death.

A population-based study from Japan found that children born to mothers 35 or older were 21-41% less likely to develop food ...

History buffs are no doubt familiar with the story of Shadrack Byfield, a rank-and-file British redcoat who fought during the ...

We purchased a T-shirt in Auckland, New Zealand, for our granddaughter Julie with the words “New Zealand State of Mind.” Those words got us thinking about what it was which made our days in New ...

After buying his own liberty, the Marylander covertly assisted conductors on the Underground Railroad, including Harriet Tubman. But his possession of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" turned him into an abolitioni ...