By Paul A. Tenkotte, PhD Special to NKyTribune “The public mind has for some time appeared to be interested and alarmed, ...

Bermuda, shaped like a fishhook, lies 650 miles east of North Carolina’s Cape Hatteras and 800 miles north of the West Indies ... Irish monk and adventurer. Spanish navigator Juan de Bermúdez ...

Map: Guilbert Gates; Map Sources ... that in 1800 he obtained Dutch passports so he could sail to the Pacific via the Dutch East Indies, hoping to find a route to St. Louis from there.

Although maps containing the rough geographic boundaries of Cape Canaveral, albeit without a name, are dated as early as 1502, Spanish explorer ... cutting a path east from the middle of the ...

Map by Robert Lunsford. The result was what we remember today as the French and Indian War — and a British victory that saw the French forced to give up Quebec to the British and Louisiana to the ...

In 1603, Portuguese explorer Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, sailing under the banner of the Spanish ... Council of the Indies dispatched another explorer and merchant, Abel Janzoon Tasman on a voyage of ...

The seafarer peoples of the past who mastered the oceans were crucial in laying the foundations upon which civilizations were ...

Independent Bookstore Day was a celebration of community for the 1,600 indie bookstores across the country celebrating it ...

A pair of Japan-based U.S. destroyers has been operating in the Indian Ocean over the past month, as the Pentagon is enhancing its military presence in the nearby Middle East. A spokesperson for ...

On the other side of the bridge, the East Bay restaurant scene is on a steep ... interesting interiors to go with the delicious food. Eater maps are curated by editors and aim to reflect a ...

The earthquake, at 10:08 a.m., had a preliminary magnitude of 5.2 and was near the mountain town of Julian, east of San Diego, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The San Diego County Sheriff ...