Gail Pope is social history curator at the MTG. On the morning of Thursday May 4, 1905, Te Matau-a-Māui businessman and keen ...

"Lewis & Dryden’s Marine History of the Pacific Northwest” recounts the “terrible wreck” of the American barque Industry on the Columbia River Bar on March 16, 1865. After two weeks of rough weather ...

Despite increased Chinese military presence in the South China Sea, Southeast Asian nations remain undeterred in asserting ...

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Sail Amsterdam is the largest public event in the Netherlands that takes place every five years since its inception in 1975.

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Feel tiny under the big Texas sky, marvel at an annual bat migration, travel on horseback through a colorful canyon, and soak ...

The Grand Egyptian Museum will house an 11-metre statue of Ramses II and over 100,000 artefacts, including Tutankhamun’s ...

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Chinese government study says laser satellite data reveals harbour deep enough for advanced warships on largest reef in the Spratly Islands.

Pope Francis’s battle with double pneumonia is the most serious health complication the pontiff has suffered from since taking the Chair of St. Peter in 2013.