Of all the forgotten tales brought back to life in this column, this one may be the most obscure of all. You’ll have to dig deep into the history books to find it. Though forgotten today, it played a ...

A memorable event occurred in the annals of Santa Barbara County and Goleta history in January 1981. Due to a high tide and unusual currents, sand was removed down to the bedrock oil-bearing shale ...

Irish officials made extensive efforts to convince UK authorities to return extremely rare bronze cannons after claiming they were “illegally smuggled” from a Waterford shipwreck and sold to the Tower ...

KUALA KANGSAR, Malaysia, March 31 (Reuters) - As Malaysian Muslims began celebrating Eid al-Fitr after a month of fasting, the sound of cannons echoed through the rice fields of a northern village, in ...

An 18th-century bronze cannon used in the Battle of the Alamo has been the subject of a preservation effort to remove an unusual substance that was growing mysteriously on its surface. The effort, led ...