What's behind the often cryptic symbols used by historic watchmakers? Here are some that are particularly interesting or ...

The previous Paralympic logo incorporated the Tae-Geuk, which is a traditional Korean decorative motif. According to oriental philosophy, Tae-Geuk refers to the ultimate reality from which all things ...

Are you using, or planning to use the offical UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) logo, including the colour wheel and 17 icons in your communications materials? Did you know that the SDG ...

A few years after her marriage to a wealthy American, the English stage-actress Frances Anne Kemble (1809–1893) moved with her husband to his residence in Georgia, where he had inherited two ...

This study of recruitment to the ministry of the Church of England in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries overturns many long-standing assumptions about the education and backgrounds of ...

Published in pursuance of Law, Vandalia: William Walters, Public Printer, 1839. Incorporation Laws of the State of Illinois Passed by the Eleventh General Assembly, at their Session begun and held at ...

266-69 Kishlansky Introduction: Lin Zexu (1785-1850) was the Chinese Commissioner in Canton whose actions precipitated the Opium Wars (1839-1842). Although opium was used in China for centuries, it ...

Around 1839 he fitted pedal operated cranks to the rear wheel of a hobby horse, so inventing the world's first bicycle. In 1842, aged 29, Macmillan set out from Courthill Smithy on his bicycle to ...