Over 16 million animals served in World War I, detecting gas, controlling pests, transporting supplies, and boosting morale.

Day, the first day of the Normandy landings that laid the foundations for the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.

Elvis Presley introduces his new single, Hound Dog, on TV, scandalising the audience with his suggestive hip movements. 1963 ...

It was a stroll through one of Derry’s oldest and most sacred grounds as history unfolded during a tour at Forest Hill ...

In March, a tentative peace deal brokered by the U.S. allowed safer travel in the Black Sea, making it easier for goods to get to Ukraine, and Holland has a stockpile to send their way thanks to the ...

Mark Felt admitted that, while No. 2 man in the FBI, he was "Deep Throat," the shadowy contact whose help to Washington Post ...

In the robot wars of the future, human beings will be redundant – except as casualties - COMMENT: The government has ...

Other contenders include US president George Washington, Boer War commander Louis Botha ... when historians will make the final choice. “In the first Afghan war of the early 1840s, there’s no denying ...

which has a stained glass window showing Queen Victoria in a wheelchair handing flowers to a wounded soldier from the First Boer War. On the Sunday the Bishop of Sheffield Dr Pete Wilcox will lead ...

At the foot of a hill they commemorate victory in the First Boer War in 1881. They sing a new hymn honoring their town. «God calls us together in honor of his great name,» they sing ...

When the Second Boer War erupted in October ... a guide to surviving in the wilderness that would later become the first manual for the Boy Scouts. As the British press reported daily on the ...

published his first lecture on the Gita in the weekly Indian Opinion. Gandhi, who had set up the Natal Indian Ambulance Corps during the Second Boer War, wrote in his editorial: “That a South ...