Fresh from his great victory at Austerlitz, Napoleon's next campaign saw him take on Prussia in the autumn of 1806. Prussia's army had been feared throughout Europe since the days of Frederick the ...

The point is only that an extended peace brings its own problems: disunity, inequality, incompetence. They are infinitely ...

The story of caesium’s discovery concerns three men – two men who worked in tandem to announce their discovery on May 10, ...

Prince Arthur, the Duke of Connaught, was the seventh child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, born in 1850.

In 1190, during the Third Crusade, the Domus Hospitalis Sanctæ Mariæ Teutonicorum Hierosolymitanorum (Order of the Teutonic ...

They gave us Kant and Herder, Frederick the Great and Kaiser Bill; they gave us red Gothic castles ... It is this odd fact about Prussia that makes it so intriguing. Here was a fully-fledged nation, ...

Diderot, a man of exemplary honesty, found it hard to cope with her dual nature. He had no trouble, unlike Voltaire, in dismissing Frederick the Great of Prussia as a monster, and on his way to St ...

Robert Prevost has been elected the first pope from the United States in the history of the Catholic Church. The Chicago-born ...

Frederick Health Hospice, the division of Frederick Health dedicated to supporting terminally ill patients and their families, has announced Korey Cobb as its new director. Cobb is the third ...