If the weather cooperates, the astronomical event April 8 could eclipse anything ever seen in Northeast Ohio. The last total solar eclipse visible here was in 1806. Over the past 218 years, there have ...

Here's a brief history of the oldest lighthouse on Cape Cod. According to the National Park Service, Highland Light was ...

The oldest lighthouse in Massachusetts is over 300 years old. When the Massachusetts Bay Colony was first founded in 1630, the Puritans struggled from a scarcity of necessary survival goods which lead ...

On one hand, the speed of light is just a number: 299,792,458 meters per second. And on the other, it’s one of the most important constants that appears in nature and defines the relationship of ...

This Victorian-style lighthouse, located in Avila Beach, Calif., was built in 1890 to guide ships into Port San Luis. (Pat Pemberton/CNS) AVILA BEACH, Calif. (CN) — Inside the picturesque Point San ...

For thousands of years, getting light was a huge hassle. You had to make candles from scratch. This is not as romantic as it sounds. You had to get a cow, raise the cow, feed the cow, kill the cow, ...

The forced Christianization of Hellas / Greece in the fourth century and after wounded ancient Hellenic / Greek culture but did not completely destroy. In medieval Greece (wrongly dubbed Byzantium), ...