My son, I love you so much, for you are my reason for being. You are the courage that lives in me when I fight on the front. You are the...

The canary is a bird that’s always in fine fettle, enchanting listeners with its melodious song. This bright yellow-feathered bird does...

Somewhere in southern England, the servicemen of the British Army were in training. Tirelessly they fired at paper targets, practised...

Gruel is a mixture of cereals – usually oats, wheat, rye or rice. It is made with the scraps of the harvest, milled and boiled in water...

It weighed as much as fourteen Boeing 787s of the modern age; over three thousand tonnes of steel to be propelled and lifted into earth’s...

I was born in Ohio, in 1930. From as early as I can remember, I wanted to fly. I guess all kids do that, but I never stopped. When I was...

The American photographer was impatient, for on his list of sights to see in India, only one item remained: the Taj Mahal. Finally his...

" Sâda ?” is an oft-heard question in the coffee shops of Cairo, asking whether or not your coffee, known to the Cairenes as ahwa, should...

“Egypt is the gift of the Nile,” the Greek historian Herodotus once wrote.   The Nile was born of a fissure torn in the earth some thirty...

“Once upon a time, there was a king – King Louis XIV!” laughed one woman, “who reigned many a long year over France, and when the war...

The people of Brittany have given many proud names to the places in which they have settled. The islands of Terre-Neuvas take their named...

So the legend tells: one cold winter’s day, when the wind was howling and a thick sky hung over the snowy fields, three children ventured...

Who among us has never dreamed of time travel? Who among us has never thought of changing the course of events, of correcting their...

Marius dreamt idly of his youth, spent as a harbour pilot in Marseille. From the quayside, his job was to guide boats into the harbour...

Edna Purviance was pregnant and poor; her lover, Carl Miller, was a penniless artist, and could not pay for their child to be born in a...

Just who was Charles Luciano, the man everyone knew as ‘Lucky?’ He was a New York gangster; a pimp, a boss of the underworld, the man who...

Tommie Smith and John Carlos knew all too well what their fate would be once they returned to American soil, but it would all be worth...

“And what do you do for a living?” Margot asked the man.                   “I’m a professor of literature at the Sorbonne. I teach...

The sky was blue over the Bronx, without a cloud on this Sunday afternoon. Jimmy had woken early this morning to the music from his alarm...

Tonight was the bicentenary celebration of the foundation of Gotham City, an overpopulated metropolis surrounded by the sea, battered by...