I have an assignment to write over the next couple of weeks. As a result the regular 'On this day in history' posts will not be appe...

In the late eighteenth-century, Napoleon Bonaparte charged a survey team with the task of discovering the remnants of an ancient waterway th...

In 1974 engineers of the Soviet Union began work on the Buran ("Blizzard") project, which was a response to NASA's Space Shut...