Remarkable Travels

It was a swelteringly hot afternoon.  The mercury had risen above 110 Fahrenheit and there was not a whisper of wind.  But the heat inside...

At exactly 2.30pm on 11 July, 1897, a gigantic silk balloon could be seen rising into the Arctic sky above Spitzbergen.  Inside the basket ...

Edward Gein, the mild mannered, Midwestern psychopath from Plainfield, Wisconsin who, in the nineteen fifties, would shock the nation with h...

The Story Thus Far:  The Christian “Reconquista” movement against the Moorish occupation of the Iberian Peninsula and “Mad” Caliph al-Hakim...

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free  exercise  thereof; or  abridging the free...