What ultimately formed Mt. Everest, about 60 million years ago, was the rapid movement of India northward toward the continent of EuroAsia; Click here for a present-day map of the Indian subcontinent.

From Christopher Columbus to Marco Polo, these celebrated—and controversial—explorers made groundbreaking journeys across the ...

The last ice age ended about 10,000 years ago. Sea levels rose rapidly, and the continents achieved their present-day outline. When the temperatures drop, ice sheets spread from the Poles and ...

by excising Pharaonic Egypt from the continent and setting it up on its own pedestal, you lose the connection to the other great ancient civilization on the Nile, the Kingdom of Kush (present day ...

As continents heaved upward ... to 70-million-year-old fossilized ocean creatures thousands of feet above present-day sea level strongly suggests that ocean levels fell dramatically as the ...

On June 23, 1993, the day of the arbitrary annulment of the national ... propelled will do well to study the personalities of the present and the immediate past Nigerian military despots.

in 1877 and the Gold Coast (modern-day Ghana) in 1874. Portugal controlled the colonies of Angola, Mozambique, and ...

As hard as it is to believe, it's July. A new month means more goodies that are new on Netflix, like a new "Beverly Hills Cop ...

In the document all were ‘endowed by their Creator’ with ‘unalienable rights’ to ‘life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness ...

In it, he reminded the world of the cost of the allied mission to liberate the continent of Europe from Nazi fascism. As he said, among the first waves of soldiers landing that day in 1944 ...

No matter what the outcome of November's election, the U.S. is likely to shift its military focus to the Pacific by 2027.

Welcome to Normandy on a D-Day ... was also present that year, and again in 2014. Even though the Soviet Union contributed ...