World War 1 created a wave of devastating facial injuries that traditional medicine was unprepared to treat. Surgeons like Harold Gillies pioneered new reconstructive techniques that laid the ...

The First World War might have erupted nearly two decades earlier - not in 1914, but in 1896. In the remote swamps of the Upper Nile, British and French forces faced off at a crumbling outpost called ...

A young Bosnian Serb had one plan to free his people from the monarchy of Austria-Hungary: kill Archduke Franz Ferdinand, ...

The wealthiest college athletic conference ever to exist was founded in 1896, at the Chicago Loop's still-standing Palmer House hotel. From those quasi-humble origins sprang a behemoth—an 18-team ...

Vietnam Veteran Jack Minnier, of Shamokin Dam, a former adjutant of the Sunbury American Legion Post 201, quite by accident, ...