What’s your favorite color? Probably blue, right? Everyone like it–five of Pantone’s last 11 colors of the year have been shades of blue, including this year’s pick, turquoise. A Cambridge ...

Hokusai's Great Wave off Kanagawa remains the enduring image of Japanese art. The print depicts a giant wave with unmistakable frothing tentacles poised to smash a boat below. The boat's occupants ...

Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben was a Prussian soldier designated inspector general of the American Continental Army. He was in charge of training the troops in 1778 during the period of the ...

Three hundred years ago, adventurous scientists working in the fledgling discipline of chemistry often weren't sure what they would get when cooking up a recipe. That was how Prussian blue was born.

Gallas, redeployed in Jičín after a previous defeat. Clam-Gallas believed he would receive support from the Austrian main ...

The Battle of Münchengrätz was a pivotal engagement during the Austro-Prussian War. After suffering defeats at Hühnerwasser and Podol, the Austrian Iser Army, led by Clam-Gallas and Prince Albert of ...

As we enter spring 2024, Ukraine’s military position looks tenuous. Its counter-offensive in 2023 did not achieve the ambitious results that Ukraine’s allies had hoped for, and the Ukrainians are now ...

The blue residue left on the walls of Nazi gas chambers is an unmistakable marker of the horrors that the rooms once witnessed, the bright splotches providing incongruous color in the drab death cells ...