During the Peloponnesian War this island was the site of a Spartan defeat at the hands of irregular Athenian troops.
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Daily Quiz for March 26, 2011
As instructed in her will, the large inheritance this woman had received from her father, sisters, and brothers was used to found a premier woman’s college in 1871.
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Daily Quiz for March 25, 2011
The first Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded in 1901 for this scientific milestone.
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Daily Quiz for March 24, 2011
This journalist’s career was launched by her indignant response to an anti-woman’s suffrage editorial run in the Pittsburgh Dispatch.
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Nine Days that Shook the World: The Death of the Kursk Offensive
Why Hitler called off Operation Citadel to save Italy
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Daily Quiz for March 23, 2011
Despite its location in Florida, this fort remained in Union hands during the entire Civil War.
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From a Dock to a Wharf: A Walk in East London
A three-mile stroll from St. Katharine Dock to Canary Wharf takes in some unexpected delights as the history of the East End is laid out along the Thames
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In Search of Lorna Doone: The Romance of Exmoor and the North Devon Coast
Exmoor and the lush, sheer coastline of North Devon may be the most famous landscape never visited. Atlantis, Avalon and Camelot: For most people, this “Lorna Doone Country” has that same mystical quality.
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Daily Quiz for March 22, 2011
This American submarine along with the USS Argonaut transported "Carlson’s Raiders" for their famous raid on Makin Atoll during World War II.
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200th Anniversary of the Map That Made New York City
On March 22, 1811, a man, a map, and a far-reaching vision created the plan that would allow New York City to become one of the world’s greatest metropolises.