At the height of the Prohibition-era gang wars, the infamous gangster Al Capone had enemies everywhere. He also had a ride ...

Herbert Hoover’s first foray into politics came during World War I when then president Woodrow Wilson appointed him US food ...

June 13: Seach and 6 others were cited for their courage in repulsing an attack by 300 Chinese Imperialist soldiers and Boxer militants with a bayonet charge, thus thwarting a planned massive ...

The capture of Beijing all but ended what was known as the Boxer Rebellion. The rebellion, fueled by economic hardship and the growing encroachment on Chinese territory by imperial powers — the ...

Set against the backdrop of the Boxer Rebellion (which must have been unfolding as Mason was writing), the story revolves around a mixed-race heroine, the illegitimate daughter of the British head ...

The memory of trying to learn mathematics is a fine source of humility. Even high school geometry was hard, though the class gave me time to gaze out at the Shenandoah Valley from a hilltop fine arts ...

Although her real home was on the North Dakota prairie, Helen Burton found a second home in China, surviving the Japanese ...

In 1901, the Boxer Rebellion in China ended with the Boxer Protocol, a peace agreement between China and other world powers. In 1940, Nazi Germany launched the London blitz, bombings that Adolf ...

Looking at this extract from the book, explain why Boxer doesn't lead his own rebellion against the pigs when he is the strongest animal on the farm. 'Boxer, who has now had time to think things ...

Chris Lake and Disclosure’s much-anticipated collaboration 'in2minds' caps off a massive summer for both artists.

As Waldorf Astoria opens more hotels in Asia including Xiamen and Beijing, it's committed to creating a strong sense of local ...