From financing expeditions in the New World to founding hospitals and schools, these women were incredibly influential—and granted more power than their counterparts back home.

Find endless shores to wander and pockets of coves to discover, as you write a new page of your voyages in Spain — this time ...

Every October 12th, Spain marks the anniversary ... covers all former Spanish colonies. [ Mexican snub of Spanish king reopens colonisation disputeOpens in new window ] In an unprecedented move ...

The Spanish trading ships linked the Spanish Crown's Viceroyalty of New Spain, based in Mexico City ... of the crew while ...

During the Revolutionary period, American money often contained messages about unity. The image of thirteen interlocking rings on Continental money was intended to illustrate the solidarity of the ...

Home to mountains of manure described as a new "white gold" and one of the most valuable substances on Earth, the guano islands became in the late 1800s ground zero for a series of resource wars ...

One resident certainly did not get any sleep on the night of September 27 after they found a terrifying surprise curled up ...

President Joe Biden has managed this national divide by marking both Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples’ Day in separate White House proclamations. But rather than divide up for rival civic holidays, ...

The protectorate did not begin in 1912, but as early as 1830. Indebted, threatened and overwhelmed, the sultans preferred to ...

People visit countries like France, Spain, United States, Italy ... The President sacks five Ministers, appoints seven new ones, and redeploys 10 Ministers. He used to have 45 Ministers, now he has ...

Coral colonies are habitats and breeding grounds for many marine ... It is home to 300 coral species, 500 fish species, 600 species of mollusks and a host of other sea life and marine invertebrates.

A wheeler-dealer pensioner is riding high after selling hundreds of copies of his hilarious calendar featuring mobility scooters in Benidorm. Kevin Beresford, 72, first shot to fame in 2003 with his ...