As a reward, his Spanish benefactors, Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, said Columbus would be entitled to ten percent of all the ...

Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) generally gets credit for finding America. In grade school, many of us learned this ditty: ...

“Christopher Columbus is still alive.” So writes Matthew Restall in his biography of the weaver’s son from Genoa who became one of the most famous people of all history and, we might say, the greatest ...

Remains belonging to Star Trek legends, mainly the cast of the 1966 original series, have been sent into space. Which cast ...

An acclaimed new film dramatises the pioneering voyage of the world-famous Portuguese navigator – a trailblazer who has been ...

Once praised by French traditionalist Catholics, the 'discoverer of America' is now celebrated by American and Italian ...

Last week, in an attempt to justify his military attack on the sovereign nation of Venezuela and the ensuing arrest of ...

Last week, in an attempt to justify his military attack on the sovereign nation of Venezuela and the ensuing arrest of ...

Who named America? Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci inspired the name via a 1507 map by Martin Waldseemüller. Learn who was ...

Richard Dunn, a longtime sportswriter, writes the Dunn Deal column regularly for The Orange County Register’s weekly, The ...

The knock was soft but determined. Imagine my surprise when I peered out a window to see an officer standing in my driveway.

The Fall Line is the geological term for the transition zone in Georgia between Columbus and Augusta that separates the hard ...