Bonus Army, gathering of some 10,000 to 25,000 World War I veterans who, with their wives and children, converged on Washington, D.C., in 1932, demanding immediate bonus payment for wartime services to alleviate the economic hardship of the Great Depression.…

Italian mathematician (1499-1557)

A Mexican pilot who made an emergency landing at a Cork racecourse awaits the building of a runway so that he can depart.

Rock concert disaster

Recent research on Danish shows that not only is it hard for Danish children to learn their mother tongue, but adult Danes use their native language differently than speakers of other languages.

New Zealand (1940-1942) Tractor tank - 3 built Few tanks have achieved the level of notoriety and even scorn which has been cast upon the ‘Bob Semple Tank’. Few lists of ‘Worst ever tanks’ miss

Chorley-born seaman Charles Lightoller survived the Titanic, saw active service in the First World War and helped rescue soldiers from the Dunkirk beaches.

bank or public holiday that occurs on 26 December, or the first or second weekday after Christmas Day

David Vaughan Icke (/ˈdeɪvɪd vɔːn aɪk/; born 29 April 1952) is an English conspiracy theorist and a former footballer and sports broadcaster. He has written over 20 books, self-published since the mid-1990s, and spoken in more than 25 countries.

In 2002 Slovenian archaelogists uncovered a wooden wheel some 20 kilometres southeast of Ljubljana. It was established that the wheel is between 5.100 and 5.350 years old. This makes it the oldest in the world ever found.

In Paris 1876, 25-year-old Blanche Monnier was a typical socialite scrambling to find a suitor before it was too late. She fell in love with an older, broke lawyer, who her aristocratic mother disliked, and set her heart on marrying him.

 ”It doesn’t take an Einstein to know that young people attending a rap concert…who have paid as much as $20 a ticket, would not be very happy and easy to

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American illustrator and writer of children's books

They're a life-saving signal for the emergency services - but can also be a dangerous time-waster

Cutting through the fake news to find out the real reason why Mac and iPhone maker Apple is called Apple

A biography of French Resistance leader and hero Jean Moulin and his role in World War II.