In 2026, America is set to commemorate its 250th birthday, a milestone few nations reach with the vibrancy and influence that the United States has historically wielded.
When the First World War began, British women suffragists sent an Open Christmas Letter "To the Women of Germany and Austria" imploring peace as the first Christmas of...
Many famous composers wrote classic Christmas music.
In 1741, George Frideric Handel wrote his oratorio Messiah.
In 1734, Johann Sebastian Bach wrote his Christmas Oratorio.
Twenty years after composer Bach died, Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany, and...
St. Nicholas is the most renowned saint in Greek Orthodox tradition.
He was the Bishop of Myra in 4th century Asia Minor, imprisoned by Romans; preached...
On NOVEMBER 21, 1620, according to the "New Style" Gregorian Calendar, the Pilgrims signed the Mayflower Compact and began their Plymouth Colony.
Of the 102 Pilgrims, only 47 survived till Spring.
At one point, only a...
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...
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...
