Once one of Europe’s largest kingdoms, Poland was wiped off the map by its neighbors — Russia, Prussia, and Austria — through ...

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SOLDIERS ON MANOEUVRES do relish a “sinking exercise”: the blowing up of a clapped-out warship as target practice. And during Valiant Shield 2024, a wargame in the Pacific, many witnessed a ...

Netflix’s 1670 is one of the sharpest period comedies of recent years. Shot in a mockumentary style, it follows Jan Paweł Adamczewski (Bartlomiej Topa), a vain provincial nobleman, and his family, in ...

Built in the late 1700s, the Park Ridge home served as both a residence and a trading hub. The Ackerson family developed the site with a store, distillery and woolen mill. A historic stone Colonial in ...

An artist's impression of how the currently empty mansion would look as a welcome centre under the plans Plans have been lodged to create a holiday park with more than 140 lodges at an 18th Century ...

Between 1744 to 1801, some 4,163 patients aged 13 and under were treated at Northampton Infirmary and of these 56% were male and 43.3% female, records reveal Researchers have discovered children ...

"How many of the recipes have urine in them?" It's a question I've asked alarmingly early in my conversation about Irish culinary manuscripts with Nora Thornton and Joanne Carroll, two Assistant ...

NEW PHILADELPHIA — The annual Fall Lantern Tours at Schoenbrunn Village are scheduled for 7:30-9:30 p.m. Sept. 12-13. Visitors can explore the village by battery-powered lanterns, following a lighted ...

WILLIAMSBURG — A new spinet-style harpsichord has been added to the Colonial Williamsburg musical instrument collection, but there is a twist: It’s for sale. Master harpsichord maker Edward Wright and ...

The artwork had been missing for 80 years before Dutch journalists spotted it in a real estate listing in Argentina. By Claire Moses Reporting from Amsterdam Where is “Portrait of a Lady,” an ...

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