If home is where the heart is, it may be beneficial to have a blessing carved in stone on the front. While date stones ...

Stories of English milkmaids, suitors courting young Klara in 1800s Germany, and Christmas in Staunton during the pre-Civil War era are told by the flickering lights of candles and lanterns.

Observing the changes taking place in Western society due to the industrialisation of the late 1800s, German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche argued that these traditional values were beginning to ...

Born in July 1800, German jurist Johann Heinrich Friedrich Karl Witte is the youngest prodigy in the world to be awarded a PhD. At 13 years old, on April 13, 1814, he earned his PhD in philosophy from ...

hitting a railway bridge and unleashing 1,800 pounds of explosive force. The bizarre aircraft was a German-made Vergeltungswaffen ("vengeance weapon") -- now known as the V1 Flying Bomb.