Cabot, the name of a family of explorers intimately connected with the history of America. JOHN is supposed to have been born…

Columbus, CHRISTOPHER (Cristoforo Colombo), discoverer of America; born in or near Genoa about 1435. At the age of ten years he was placed…

Discovery has startled the world more than Conquest. Scarcely less surprising than some discoveries is the fact that the world has so often…

Encouraged by President Johnson’s evident intention to return to them the management of their own affairs, Southern legislators, elected by white voters,…

Born: 10 July 1867 Died: 6 November 1929 Born on 10 July 1867 in Baden Baden the son of the Grand Duke…

In February 1935 Hitler openly acknowledged the existence of the new German Luftwaffe (air force), in direct violation of the Treaty of Versailles that…