The name is brilliant: "vintage tonnage". It evokes 17th-century pirate vessels flying the skull-and-crossbones, 18th-century ships-of-the-line bristling with cannons, or even 19th-century clipper ...

The birthplace of 18th Century artist Thomas Gainsborough has launched an appeal to help preserve its collection of ...

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Ivan IV Vasilyevich was just a teenager when he was crowned czar and grand prince of all Russia on January 16, 1547. Today, ...

Rosatom's floating nuclear power plants offer a flexible, mobile, and eco-friendly energy solution for global markets, ...

A new documentary on BBC 2 will tell the story of an 18th Century water mill which was uncovered in the heart of Bristol.

An image depicting a famous 19th-century painting of Cossacks, with current Ukrainian soldiers standing in for the warriors, has struck a chord as Kyiv battles to assert its identity. Russia’s ...

Russia’s president is said to have blamed birds or a Ukrainian drone for a Dec. 25 crash of an Azerbaijani plane. Azerbaijan says Russian air defenses were at fault. By Anton Troianovski “I ...

Whilst the scientific revolution of the 17th century had spread ideas of rationalism and experimentation, and the industrial revolution had transformed the production of goods in the late 18th ...

Like the bones of some prehistoric edifice, the former Sheraton Hotel by the Wichita River was not much more than a skeleton ...