As the German U-boat U-1206 departed Kristiansand on her first war patrol in April 1945, a single toilet flush led to her ...

William Sharp of Little Egg Harbor found New Jersey's biggest lobster on July 4, 2003, in 70 feet of water, a record that can ...

COMMENTARY: In a time of prejudice and social tension, a single afternoon with a group of Franciscan sisters offered an ...

A bit farther north, The Museum of Flight in Seattle landed at No. 2 on the list. The museum has more than 175 air and spacecraft and bills itself as the world’s largest independent, nonprofit ...

The history of the world is far deeper, broader, and stranger than just political backstabbing, epic battles, and dusty ...

USS Buckley engaged in one of World War II’s most surreal naval battles with German submarine U-66. After bombarding the ...

Marjory Collins (1912–1985) covered the home front extensively in World War II, having studied at Sweet Briar College and the University of ... Their Rescue The boys ran away from their boarding ...

In 1941, the Norwegian boat Arnefjord made a perilous 200-mile North Sea crossing, transporting refugees. 83 years later, it ...

You’d be excused for being suspicious of these concoctions. Poured into clear-glass one-gallon jars of unregulated ...

Meanwhile, Greta in Germany has to race to pack up her Berlin apartment when her husband suddenly tells her he’s taken a new ...

Jews are being attacked in places that once were safe for them.

The horror movie "Jaws" first swam into theaters June 20, 1975. But in 1916, real-life shark attacks and sightings haunted ...