Our Bygone Burnley video article today takes us to Hapton, the location of one of the borough’s oldest cotton mills, a castle ...

Between 1154 and 1189, Henry II of England assembled the greatest collection of lands of any western king since Charlemagne. Born the son of a mere count of Anjou, via his mother (the daughter of King ...

April 7 (UPI) --Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako arrived at Iwo Jima Monday as they begin a tour of memorial visits this month to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II.

Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako made a visit to Ioto ... which marks the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. After leaving on a government plane from Tokyo's Haneda Airport, the ...

William Henry Whittington II, 67, of Branson died April 3, 2025, at his home. Mr. Whittington worked as a mechanic and was a Christian. Born Aug. 30, 1957, in St. Louis, he was the son of the late ...

the feeble and weak-minded Henry managed to send England into a complete tailspin, starting one of the most brutal conflicts in the country's history. So where did it all go wrong? Why was Henry ...

Brad Pitt has a notable ancestral link to medieval England, being a distant relative of the late Queen Elizabeth II through King Henry II. Pitt's connection places him within an influential ...

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii – NOAA researchers recently made an unlikely discovery while exploring the wreckage of the USS Nevada. The Nevada survived the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, but years later after ...

The ambitious son of a Norman merchant in London, Becket, clever and personable, worked for Theobald, Archbishop of Canterbury until, at thirty-five, he was appointed chancellor by a young Henry II, ...

For Indigenous people, HBC has a very different meaning: colonizer. On May 2, 1670, King Charles II of England granted a charter establishing the Hudson’s Bay Company and claiming millions of ...