Werner Hartenstein pulled drowning British troops from the Atlantic Ocean in September 1942. The German U-boat commander was ...
For centuries, the country now known as Iran was called Persia, a name taken from Persis. Within the country, however, its ...
Colonial imagery often depicted Indians as recipients of instruction, like in this from 1866 depicting students from a ...
On WikiFlix, a Netflix-inspired archive of public domain films, you can watch movies like "It's a Wonderful Life" and ...
Lift your holiday spirits with art by discovering 20 of the best Christmas paintings ever created, from the Byzantine period through today!
In a world facing ecological exhaustion and spatial saturation, the act of building has come to represent both creation and consumption. For decades, architectural progress was measured by the new: ...
The English High Court on Friday ruled that Australia-based company BHP Mining was liable for the collapse of the Fundão Dam in Brazil over a decade ago, which caused the country’s worst environmental ...
The last known photo of the slender-billed curlew, a grayish-brown migratory waterbird, was taken in February 1995 at Merja Zerga, on Morocco’s Atlantic coast. There will likely never be another one.
Wikimedia is sounding the alarm on the impact AI is having on reliable knowledge and information on the internet. In a blog post, Wikimedia's senior director of product, Marshall Miller, lays out the ...
During last spring’s federal election campaign, Prime Minister Mark Carney declared himself a fan of Quebec musical artists Coeur de Pirate and Rock et Belles Oreilles, stating in the same breath that ...
The phrase of the moment, for obvious reasons, is “Make America Great Again.” As it turns out, however, there may be more than one way to make America great again. The Trump way, it is becoming clear, ...
Eric Trump, son of US President Donald Trump, said the family became pro-crypto after they were “debanked” in the aftermath of the Capitol attack incident in early 2021. Several banks shut down ...