French authorities say a fire engulfed the town hall of Paris’ 12th district, causing no casualties but severely damaging the bell tower of the 19th century building PARIS -- Fire engulfed the ...

Analysis of dried plants from a colonial institution in 19th-century Australia reveals many ... These small acts of rebellion may have been a way for the women to resist the totalizing discipline ...

Transparency International's Corruption Perception Index makes grim reading for most Balkan countries, with Kosovo and Albania as rare exceptions to a worsening trend. Students hold a banner with ...

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The 21st century pharmaceutical and biotech sector has come a long way from its roots in 19th century pharmacy. pharmaphorum looks at its evolution over the centuries. The roots of the ...

This repo contains the code for hosting a web app for a map editor for the board game "Star Wars Armada: Rebellion in the Rim".

For the first time, an official map from the late Edo Period (1603-1867) was found that shows the now-disputed Takeshima islets as Japanese territory, a Japanese think tank said. The navigational ...

An Irish revolutionary's extraordinary journey from rebellion to the Ottoman Empire ... The Remarkable Life of 19th Century Mercenary Eugene 'Hassan Bey' O'Reilly (1828-1873), relates the ...

The barracks is World Heritage Listed for its convict history, but is equally important for the story of 19th century Australian immigration. After the end of convict transportation to New South ...

Traditionally, maps have been used to represent cosmologies, cultures and belief systems. By the 17th century, maps that represented spatial relations within a given territory became important to ...