Madiba spent 18 years as a political prisoner on Robben Island and was later moved to other prisons on the mainland before his long-awaited release. The Nelson Mandela Museum, in partnership with ...

Rub your fingers over the large denomination numbers and the portrait of Nelson Mandela on the front. Genuine notes have raised printing in these areas, which you should be able to feel.

MONTREAL — Everything Brock Nelson says in public right now can be ... Being familiar with the Island, different things and kids are settled down there, that’s a factor for sure.

The 33-year-old pending unrestricted free agent has only spent his career on Long Island. However, with the Islanders not in a playoff spot at the break and Nelson's value on the trade market ...

EAST MEADOW, NY -- Forward Brock Nelson has spent his entire 12-year NHL career with the New York Islanders. But, with his pending unrestricted free-agent status, there's a chance that his time ...

The release of Nelson Mandela from prison was a watershed ... 1964 on charges of sabotage only to be convicted later. Mandela spent the first 18 years of his 27 years in jail at the brutal Robben ...

“What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.” ...

Art historians studying a painting by Pablo Picasso have uncovered the mysterious portrait of a woman, hidden beneath its surface. The portrait of the woman was lost when Picasso painted over it ...

There are 323 days left in the year. Today in history: On Feb. 11, 1990, South African anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela was freed after 27 years in prison. (Mandela would be elected president of ...

On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” – while they were being shipped to a ...

Robin Givhan is Washington Post senior critic ... Givhan covered Michelle Obama during the first y The new White House portraits of the first lady and the president tell a story of hard-nosed ...