As they painstakingly scrape grime off a monumental painting by French artist Gustave Courbet, the restorers do a remarkable ...

Born on the island of Corsica in 1769, Napoleon Bonaparte came to prominence as a brilliant military commander during the ...

While not Mexico’s Independence Day, Cinco de Mayo is an important efeméride that continues to resonate with Mexicans and ...

NOLA OMG FOOD FEST: The world’s first hip hop food festival, to be held May 17, 1-8 p.m., at Congo Square in Louis Armstrong ...

The young student’s name was Louis Braille, and though his name would forever be linked to the tactile writing system for the ...

A specter is haunting America, but it is not — with apologies to Karl Marx — the specter of communism. It is, instead, the ...

Artist Nikas Safronov said he created the painting in hopes that the artwork would strengthen U.S.-Russia ties, the Russian Embassy in Kenya said on Wednesday in a post on X. The painting depicts ...

A soldier assigned to 2nd Cavalry Regiment Field Artillery Squadron, moves a 155mm round to load the M777 Howitzer during a live fire exercise at the Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany ...

A Civil War-era Schenkl artillery shell, still unexploded, was uncovered during stream restoration work behind the Liberia House in Manassas. The shell was safely removed and documented by ...

Such was the case with the 1957 film The Pride and the Passion, which was set during the Napoleonic Wars and starred Cary Grant as a British captain who is sent to Spain to transport a cannon back to ...

President Zelensky of Ukraine said the front lines had seen artillery fire and drone attacks, and that his troops were responding. Russia accused Ukraine of breaking the cease-fire. By Kim Barker ...