The nearly three-month battle for Okinawa that ended on June 22, 1945 was the last—and the bloodiest—clash between Japanese and U.S. forces in the Pacific during World War II.
Take a look at the history of Tex-Mex, the regional cuisine that food snobs love to hate and millions love to consume.
In a pile of unpromising dinosaur fossils dug up in Canada a century ago, British scientists find soft tissue materials preserved for some 75 million years.
More than two dozen letters written by famed physicist Albert Einstein sold at auction this week, bringing in a total of some $420,625.
Now an elite police squad tasked with the state’s most serious criminal investigations, the Texas Rangers have undergone many changes in their colorful history—and some particularly memorable characters have emerged over the years.
Scientists in Alberta, Canada, identified a new species of horned dinosaur, a cousin of Triceratops that sported a distinctive bony frill and facial horns.
A collection of artifacts recovered from the wrecked HMS Erebus in Canada’s Queen Maud Gulf are all that remains of Sir John Franklin’s doomed expedition to the Arctic in 1845.
