Today in Music History for Feb. 23: In 1685, George Frideric Handel, one of the greatest masters of baroque music, was born in Halle, Germany. He is best known for his majestic oratorio, ``The Messiah ...

A WORLD-ending apocalypse will take place 35 years – according to a resurfaced letter by revolutionary scientist Sir Isaac ...

A consultation has been launched to help safeguard the future of a historic abbey that contains the bones of King Robert the Bruce amid an “eye-watering” projected £8 million in development bills.

The 950-year-old Abbey Church in Dunfermline, where the king is interred, is considered to be Scotland's equivalent to ...

Billions of people around the globe watched the funeral of Princess Diana in September 1997, making it one of the most-watched events in television history. If you're a royal watcher, you've surely ...

‘When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life,’ said Samuel Johnson in 1777.

Richard III has long stood accused of murdering his nephews in 1483, but some experts doubt it. A new piece of evidence has ...

The remains of King Harold II, who died at the famed Battle of Hastings, have never been found. But thanks to the Bayeux ...

Among the enigmatic mantle lumps are two enormous “supercontinents” buried thousands of kilometers below the crust amid the remains of ancient tectonic plates. One supercontinent lies under ...

The Committee of Parliament refused permission for him to be buried in Westminster Abbey. So the body was taken for burial to St George's chapel at Windsor on 8th February 1649. He is buried in the ...

His coffin, made of wood enclosed in a lead coffin covered with purple velvet, lay in state in the Painted Chamber within the Palace of Westminster before burial in the Abbey on 14th February in a ...