Remarkable Travels

The Christians, who make up some 10 percent of the 22 million Syrian population, have shown support for the existing Syrian government, much...

Krystyna Skarbek  (1 May 1915 – 15 June 1952) was a Polish Special Operations Executive (SOE ) agent who became a legend in her own time f...

On 27 May 1817, the body of a murder victim - 20-year-old Mary Ashford was found in a flooded sandpit at Erdington, a village lying five mi...

The Sator square is a square that reads the same forwards, backwards, upwards and downwards: S a t o r A r e p o T e n e t O p e r a ...

The most successful pirate of all time controlled a fleet of more than 1,500 ships and upwards of 80,000 sailors — and she did it all wit...

In 1553, a wood-cutter named Heinrich Schmidt was standing amongst a crowd in the Bavarian town of Hof, listening to the Margrave detail a ...