The Macdonald-Cartier Freeway, or Highway 401, is the busiest freeway in North America. Starting just outside Windsor, Ontario, it ends…
In 1954 a national charter was ratified by the French and Italian governments for the construction of a tunnel running…
The last 32 UEFA cup match between Spartak Moscow and Haarlem was hardly one to capture the imagination of the…
Named after George Karaiskakis, a hero in the 19th century Greek War of Independence, the Karaiskakis Stadium was the velodrome…
It is usual to describe the survivors of accidents as ‘lucky’, but in the case of the ill-fated Uruguayan college…
On a dark winter’s evening in 1951 a 52-strong company of the Royal Marines Volunteer Cadet Corps set out to…
If a pilot heading into the lofty urban jungle of New York City on a foggy morning rejects the chance…
‘Strength through joy’ was the slogan of the state-controlled leisure organization in Nazi Germany. The Kraft durch Freude (KdF) was…
In World War II the Japanese treated captives with extreme cruelty, and never was this more evident than when prisoners…
The evacuation of 340,000 beleaguered British and French troops from Dunkirk by early June 1940 was a minor miracle for…