News arrived in Europe that in 1570, Ottoman Turks under the command of Lala Kara Mustafa Pasha, captured Nicosia, Cyprus, after a 50-day siege.
20,000 captured Nicosians were executed. Women and boys were sold as...
Austria's far-right Freedom Party (FPO), led by Herbert Kickl, secured its first-ever general election victory, according to projections following Sunday's vote.
Germany initiated random border checks with five Western European nations this week, including France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Denmark, as part of its crackdown on illegal immigration and crime.
Khaled Ahmed al-Dandal, the chief of ISIS, was apprehended by the U.S. on Sunday. Al-Dandal had previously assisted other ISIS members in escaping from...
In 1655, British Admiral William Penn, the father of Pennsylvania's founder, captured Jamaica from the Spanish.
As Jamaica was too far from England be defended, inhabitants turned to privateers, freebooters, buccaneers and pirates...
President Ronald Reagan declared May 9, 1983:
"The Founding Fathers understood that only by MAKING GOVERNMENT THE SERVANT, not the master, only by positing SOVEREIGNTY in THE...
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., was born October 27, 1858.
As a child, he had debilitating asthma, often waking up at night as if being smothered to death.
At 6-years-old, he...
After World War I, Germany's economy suffered from depression and a devaluation of their currency.
On January 30, 1933, Adolph Hitler was elected Chancellor of Germany by promising hope and universal...
