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

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

Today, we celebrate the towering life and legacy of Benjamin Franklin—printer and philosopher, inventor and diplomat, public ...

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

Today in History for Jan. 26: In 1500, the mouth of the Amazon River in South America was discovered by Vicente Yanez Pinzon, a veteran of Christopher Columbus' first voyage to the New World.

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

NASA and SpaceX will both provide livestreams as the Crew-11 astronauts depart the International Space Station today.

While US President Donald Trump has reiterated his desire to take control of resource-rich Greenland, he is not the first to ...

American history is filled with dramatic stories, legendary figures, and incredible events that have been repeated so often ...

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

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 ...