The twice-yearly ritual has roots in cost-cutting strategies of the late 19th century. A recent effort ... The idea is to move an hour of sunlight from the early morning to the evening, so that ...

Despite having their own cultural view of the world, they each independently developed materials such as gunpowder, soap and paper ... of Enlightenment. The 19th century saw some of the great ...

At the beginning of the 19th century, very few people in Africa were practising Christians, apart from Ethiopians, Coptic Egyptians and people living in the remnants of the Kongolese Empire ...

This trend was augmented by the Industrial Revolution and the growth of the middle class in the 19th century, which enabled young men to select a spouse and pay for a wedding, regardless of ...

From Queen Elizabeth’s hand-me-downs to beloved mall brands in the new Broadway production starring Rachel Zegler.

Limited as chemical knowledge was when the nineteenth century opened, there were, however, certain men at work, who had adopted the quantitative methods of Lavoisier, and who soon made important ...

At the beginning of the 19th century, though there had been some advances in medical knowledge, scientists still did not understand what caused disease. However, the production of better quality ...

For several months in 1898, a pair of male lions turned the Tsavo region of Kenya into their own human hunting grounds, killing many construction workers who were building the Kenya-Uganda railway.

From the Hôtel du Couvent in Nice to the Carlton Cannes, A Regent Hotel, in Cannes here are the 10 best luxury hotels in the ...

The transit telescope at the Allegheny Observatory was used to measure sidereal time, or “star time,” the basis for modern ...

A good soap and a quality nail brush are must-haves ... adjustable soak. We feel like a 19th-century gardener when tending to our plants with this handsome brass watering wand.

Originating in Europe and Asia, this crabby grass was introduced in the U.S. as a forage crop in the mid-19th century. Since then ... to suffocate the plant and prevent it from getting sun, ...