A 1658 map of Iceland, reprinted from Abraham Ortelius’ Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, includes a sea monster known for catching its fish through cunning. Public Domain The creature was enormous.

K.M. Abraham, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s Chief Principal Secretary, has flagged an “entrenched conspiracy” to stoke misgivings about his financial probity in the public mind ...

“Lincoln’s Legacy: Historic Americana from the Life of Abraham Lincoln” features items from the Lincoln Presidential Foundation, dating from the president’s early life through his deat ...

As works by Pieter Brueghel the Younger and Jan Brueghel the Elder come to auction in London, Old Masters pictures specialist Alexis Ashot explores art history’s most tangled family tree across almost ...

Abraham Lincoln was our tallest president. At 6-foot-4, he would stand out even today, and he certainly towered over the men and women of his era. The top hat he habitually wore in public made him ...

Click the FOLLOW button to be the first to know about this artist's upcoming lots, sold lots, exhibitions and articles Abraham Pov was an Inuit Indigenous Art sculptor who was born in 1927. How much ...

According to port authorities, the vessels calling were the Celebrity Eclipse, Star Princess, Norwegian plus Le Boreal, Ortelius and Island Sky. The port of Ushuaia in the extreme south of ...

The likely Democratic candidate, George McClellan, was promising a negotiated peace while Abraham Lincoln was promising to finish the war no matter how long it took. If Early could embarrass ...

He has done something for his race and for the world of mankind.” On May 30, Abraham Lincoln signed a law awarding prize money to Smalls for delivering the Planter and its cargo to federal ...

The National Museum of Health and Medicine is located in Washington, D.C. It was created at the start of the Civil War to further the research of military field surgery. Guilbert Gates The museum ...

It was here, on August 27, 1858, that U.S. senatorial candidates Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas waged a war of words. "Imagine that you're there," says my guide, George Buss, stepping onto ...

(In March 1861, the Pony Express set a record for transcontinental delivery—7 days 17 hours—when riders carried Abraham Lincoln’s Inaugural Address to the West Coast.) The envelope bears an ...