The years immediately following World War II saw vast crowds flocking to football games in Britain, as entertainment-starved working men…
In Queen Victoria’s time, wherever Britons went a-colonizing they took with them the sporting institutions they were used to. In…
Any time a seismograph gives a Richter scale reading of 8.3, lots of people somewhere suffer a terrible ordeal that…
Those who know no better might reasonably assume the Long Island Express speeds commuters into Manhattan from fashionable Nassau and…
The hurricane built up gradually. In late August it was just a bit of local ‘weather’ near the Bahamas. Who…
During America’s Great Depression, the nation’s economic collapse coincided with a drought in its heartlands, the semi-arid plains of the…
Since Roman times, London has built its most important public buildings on or very near the banks of the Thames,…
Most floods are known by a place name or geographic feature. In China, flooding is so endemic that only the…
The Mississippi flood of 1927 was one of America’s worst natural catastrophes. More significantly, it became the catalyst for one…