While Aztec averages a mere 10 inches of rain per year, to the crowd assembled for the Desert Gold Chapter of the DAR event ...

With their former countrymen divided and lacking a monarch after the English Civil War, Colonists seized an opportunity to ...

In September 1774, nearly two years before the Declaration of Independence, delegates from 12 of the 13 Colonies gathered in the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia. They quickly hammered out a ...

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This gathering is known as the First Continental Congress. You may be wondering: What 20 colonies? I thought there were 13. What gives? In 1774, British North America included 20 colonies — not ...

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Colonies of the species Neocapritermes taracua boast a unique type of defense, which is provided by worker termites at the end of their lives. When attacked, they sacrifice themselves by setting ...

ERFURT, Germany — It was a balmy summer night in 2020, shortly after the lifting of Germany's first COVID-19 lockdown, and Omar Diallo and two friends from his home country of Guinea wanted to ...

chuckles Jeff Lovell, whose father, Jim, is best known for commanding Nasa’s ill-fated Apollo 13 mission in April 1970. ­After an onboard explosion left their Moon-bound craft leaking oxygen ...