After Columbus discovered the New World, Spain grew in power to surpass Portugal as the largest global empire, giving rise the saying, the sun never set on the Spanish...
In 220 AD, the Later Eastern Han Dynasty extended sections of the Great Wall of China along the Mongolian border.This made it harder for the Huns to attack into China, so they turned...
Ancient peoples, for millennia, had used calendars based on the moon, whose lunar cycles incrementally shifted through the seasons. These shifting seasons served as...
Iran-backed Huthi terrorists claimed an attack earlier this week on an oil tanker in the Red Sea, the latest in a series of strikes leading to retaliation by Britain and the United States.
China's Coast Guard announced on Tuesday that it conducted patrols in the waters surrounding the Diaoyu Islands, a group of territories situated in the...
The Harvard Kennedy School is expected to host a Palestinian professor who said the Hamas’ attack was a “normal struggle for freedom,” and said she would never forgive Israel’s government for “making us take their children and elderly as hostages.”
Continuing through the centuries, courageous missionaries spread Christianity.
In the 5th century, St. Patrick evangelized the heathen Druid tribes of Ireland.
In the 6th century, St. Augustine of Cantebury baptized 10,000 heathen Anglo-Saxons in...