LONDON (Reuters Life!) - A first edition of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species," which had been kept in a toilet bookcase ...
Rare Charles Darwin book to be auctioned on 150th anniversary of famous work An auction house says it is selling a rare first ...
In this image provided by Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza di Firenze shows a finger attributed to Galileo Galilei. A Florence museum says, Friday, Nov. 20, 2009, two fingers and a tooth believed to belong to Galileo Galilei have been ...
ROME (Reuters) - An art collector has found a tooth, thumb and finger of the renowned Italian scientist Galileo Galilei who died in the 17th century, Florence's History of Science museum announced on Friday. The body parts, along with another finger and ...
NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 19: Artist Terence Koh delivers a lecture on the history of art at The National Arts Club on November 19, 2009 in New York City. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Getty Images) Copyright 2009 Getty Images
Hitler's chief architect Albert Speer is set to play a posthumous role this week when the trial of the main jailer for Cambodia's Khmer Rouge regime hears final arguments from lawyers. Speer escaped death at the Nuremberg trials after World War II ...
Correction: Today in History for April 18 In some versions of Today in History of April 18, The Associated Press erroneously reported in the birthday list the age of actress Mary Birdsong. She is 41, not 48. Copyright 2009 AP News
Assistant: Zhang considering war drama, romance as next project Looking for a new project after finishing a comedy, Zhang Yimou is considering adaptations of novels set against China's Cultural Revolution and the Japanese invasion in World War II, his assistant said Wednesday. ...
A look at recent prosecutions of suspected Nazi war criminals in Germany A look at recent prosecutions of suspected Nazi war criminals in Germany. _ November 2009: Prosecutors file charges against former SS Sgt. Adolf Storms on 58 counts of murder in ...
The bust of President Franklin D. Roosevelt is seen in front of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum Monday, Nov. 2, 2009, in Hyde Park, N.Y. Archivists at the library are waiting for congressional action to make public what the ...
FILE- This Oct. 10, 2007 file photo, shows the statue of Alma Mater on the campus of Columbia University in New York. Places that U.S. presidents have called home often become major tourist attractions, from estates at Mount Vernon and Monticello, to ...
Italian dictator Benito Mussolini was a rabid anti-Semite who called Adolf Hitler "a big romantic" and despised the pope, a new book of his mistress Claretta Petacci's diaries revealed. The Corriere della Sera daily published extracts of the book "Secret Mussolini," taken ...
