On “Mrs Dalloway’s” 100th birthday, I did the predictable thing and re-read my old copy of Virginia Woolf’s slim yet dense ...

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As part of that postcolonial empire, French paratroopers (among the world’s toughest special forces) shuttled in and out of northern Africa, conducting more than 40 interventions from 1960 to 2002.

Mansa Musa, the 14th-century ruler of the Mali Empire, amassed immense wealth through gold and strategic trade, becoming ...

Was the Genoese navigator who claimed the Americas for Spain secretly Jewish, from a Spanish family fleeing the Inquisition?

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Here are 9 old world towns to explore in New York. ... skyline and the rush of water in Niagara Falls, many New York towns bursting with history have also shaped the Empire State.