King George VI died in his sleep. It was a defining moment in the British monarchy. Princess Elizabeth, then 25, was in Kenya ...

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Billionaire insurance mogul and property developer Douw Steyn has died. Steyn, who had been in poor health for years, was 72 ...

I received in the mail a CD from Germany. Titled “Transfigured Tchaikovsky,” the recording features 16 piano transcriptions ...

A shorter, 153-day cruise known as Viking World Voyage IV departs Los Angeles on January 8, 2027, and visits 37 countries with 18 overnight ports of call before ending in Stockholm.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday in a post on X that the United States had agreed to pause its tariffs for “at least ...

The Aga Khan, who became the spiritual leader of the world’s millions of Ismaili Muslims at age 20 as a Harvard undergraduate ...

The end of the Franco-Prussian War ushered in a new age of optimism and prosperity across much of Europe, which would be ...