Stories

In 1962, Brendon Grimshaw, a newspaper editor from Dewsbury, England, bought Moyenne Island, a small 24-acre island off the coast of Mahé in Seychelles, for £8,000.

In 1919, New York City saw an unexpected venture: a chain of coffeehouses founded by the children of former President Theodore Roosevelt.

In August 2008, archaeologists from the York Archaeological Trust made a remarkable discovery during excavations at Heslington, Yorkshire, on land destined to become part of the University of York campus.

In 1922, British archaeologist Howard Carter uncovered the tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings.

As proceedings began, Anna’s mother, Marianne Bachmeier, smuggled a small Beretta pistol into the courtroom, aimed it at Grabowski’s back, and fired seven times.

In February 2016, Luna, a 1-year-old German shepherd, disappeared from a fishing boat off the California coast. Presumed drowned, she was mourned as lost to the ocean.

On April 27, 1920, Polish forces struck a decisive blow near Chernobyl during the Polish-Soviet War. What began as part of Poland’s march toward Kyiv became one of the most remarkable inland naval victories of the 20th century, led by an improvised river fleet.

In 1898, Edward William Barton-Wright, an English engineer recently returned from Japan, introduced London to something it had never seen before: Bartitsu.

Helen Adams Keller was born on June 27, 1880, in Tuscumbia, Alabama. At 19 months old, she fell ill with what doctors then called “acute congestion of the stomach and brain,” likely meningitis or scarlet fever.

For centuries, the samurai warrior has been seen as male, his name etched into the annals of Japan’s military past. Yet buried in the chronicles are accounts of women who fought with skill and bravery.