German town of Bardenberg, where the outcome of a singular soldier’s sacrifice hung in the balance, depending on his comrades ...

British Foreign Affairs Office, London, February, 23rd 1917. In the afternoon, Arthur Balfour, the foreign secretary of the ...

There must be something in Mary Waddington’s genes. The longtime Michigan Avenue resident will turn 100 years old on Monday and she’s not the only one in her family who has reached the milestone. Her ...

An archaeological excavation in Wales has unearthed magnificent Iron Age artifacts. But it wasn’t archaeologists who found them.

Harry Stewart Jr. was one of the legendary flying corps’ most decorated pilots during the WWII, having claimed three Nazi ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The names are carved on poles of African hardwood that are set upright as if reaching for the sun. No one knows where the men they represent were buried. But their names ...

Haggis is surely Scotland's most iconic dish. And with Burns Night finally here, millions of Scots will be tucking into the savoury pudding – made of sheep's offal, oatmeal and and spices ...

There are whisky cocktails to wash it down with, which may also be taken as fortification for the bagpipe accompaniment from The Pipes and Drums of London Scottish Regiment, a pipe band formed in ...

In most cases, this tune is Burns’, ‘A Man’s A Man For A’ That’, played on the bagpipes. Watch a procession of the haggis, accompanied by Burns’ tune below. In the procession, the chef (whoever made ...

In a Cape Town memorial opened Wednesday, African "iroko" hardwood posts bear the names and the date of death of 1,700 Black South African servicemen who died in non-combatant roles in WWI.

As the title suggests, Women at War is a series built around a group of women — four of them, to be exact, including a Paris sex worker, a nun, a nurse, and the head of a factory. The series ...

The 26th Battalion was raised at Enoggera, Queensland, in April 1915 from recruits enlisted in Queensland and Tasmania, and formed part of the 7th Brigade. It left Australia in July, and, after ...