Christie's held an auction for "The Bay of Eze," a painting by former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. With fees and all, the painting ended up selling for 945,000 pounds.

To the East India Company and the British ... A map from 1758 by Jacques-Nicholas Bellin reveals the inflection point in the history of South India. The map has just about every empire represented ...

There was only one qualification needed for the post of a Victorian colonial governor: he had to be a gentleman. But gentlemen had to be tough and ingenious. Laying down the law in Lagos in the 1860s, ...

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Nothing is set in stone, and ultimately this would be for new rail operators to decide, but Getlink has previously mentioned Cologne, Frankfurt, Geneva, Zurich, Marseille, Bordeaux and Lyon as ...

The UK provides aid to dozens of countries across the world, with the map below showing how much ... are among the nations expected to receive the most in British aid. Some nations also receive ...

Though the state park classification predates the current political climate, many users of Google Maps took notice of ... in the city of Prince George, British Columbia, in Lheidli T'enneh ...

The map Olmert had drawn up now has an almost mythical status. Various interpretations have appeared over the years, but he has never revealed it to the media. Until now. Ehud Olmert's map of his ...

IN the University of Gottingen there is apparently the only copy of a map of the British Isles published in 1603 by John Woutneel and engraved by William Kip. It is a large sheet cut into four and ...

Two brothers who secured investment on Dragons' Den have "put Birmingham on the map", according to people who have contacted them. Brendon and Jaydon Manders, from Quinton, founded Lumberjaxe food ...