The ship carried 1,816 captured British prisoners of war (POWs). The Japanese military, in violation of the Geneva Convention ...

In 1907, the British liner RMS Lusitania set out from Liverpool, England, on its maiden voyage, arriving six days later in New York. On May 7, 1915 during the First World War, it was sunk by a German ...

During the Mid-Autumn Festival holidays, one documentary film The Sinking of Lisbon Maru garnered widespread acclaim in China ...

“I have been more ravished myself than anybody since the Trojan war," Byron ... turned British society against him. The celebrated poet had become a monster. In 1816 Byron went into exile.

The subject he wanted the princes to master was niti shastra (or ethics), but the contemporaneous English literature on the ...

1848 - Algeria becomes a department of France, an integral part of France itself. It is a destination for hundreds of ...

Researching and sharing the stories of remarkable people is rewarding with the recognition that it often takes a book to be ...

Madhesi activists today held demonstration outside British Embassy here on the bicentennial of the 1816 British-Nepal treaty under which ... the cause of the British Government during the war." But ...

Haunted Hotels on the East Coast Worth Visiting this Fall There is nothing like a thrilling haunt during the spooky ...

Ericsson was the inventor of the propeller, and told a curious story about his first propeller boat, and a Commission of the British Admiralty ... and in 1816 a Mr. Milligan secured a patent ...

British soldiers won the first Battle of Saratoga in the Revolutionary War, but the Americans would go on to win the second ...