The last time the United States expanded its territory—gaining the Northern Marianas and some other Pacific islands—President ...

My grandmother always told us about the Crimean sights, the sea, the mountains and the beautiful native air. I was very young when I decided to return to my native land and immerse myself in reality ...

During the Crimean War he obtained a furlough ... a Lieutenant-General in the rebel army, killed at Pine Mountain, Ga. 15. -- MIX, Col. SIMON H., United States Volunteers, killed at Petersburgh ...

Asked what he knows about South Korea, he said: “I only know that South Korea has fewer mountains than North ... Russia has seized in the war, and the Crimean peninsula that Moscow annexed ...

The last living recipient of the VC, instituted by Queen Victoria in 1856 during the Crimean War ... around 90 troops stormed a heavily-guarded mountain stronghold after being told Bin Laden ...

Today marks the 154th anniversary of the passing of Sheikh Shamil, the legendary Caucasian leader whose fierce resistance ...

Mountain peaks and glaciers on a clear blue sky summer day ... Few Russians settled in Alaska and after the Crimean War, Tsar Alexander II decided to sell Alaska to the USA on 18 October 1867. Castle ...

Established in 1857 by British-German settlers after the Crimean War, Hamburg sits on the southern bank ... Visitors can explore numerous hiking trails, indulge in horse riding, mountain biking, and ...

Built by the Russian army as a defence outpost, the 19th-century Bomarsund Fortress was destroyed during the Crimean War in 1854 ... Wolf Cave is in the Pyhävuori mountain in Kristinestad near Finland ...