David Livingstone

Tim Rowland is not trying to break new ground in Civil War scholarship. He does not aspire to excavate artifacts or even to discover wholly untold tales. What he does promise from his recently published book, "Strange and Obscure Stories of the Civil...

So you hate royal weddings. Or you love them. Or maybe you've caught yourself attending to arcane details of Prince William and Kate Middleton's plans for April 29, but you can't say exactly why. Here's one reason: They defy time. Start with just the...

Rev. Brian Burkholder Other job experience: Former associate pastor in Atlanta; former missionary in Mexico City; former Central America co-director, with Baptist International Missions; former Broward campus pastor, New Testament Baptist Church...

The Chicago Blackhawks are competing in the Stanley Cup playoffs, named for Lord Stanley, the governor general of Canada who instituted the trophy. Another Stanley -- Morgan Stanley, the financial services firm -- is reportedly targeted in a federal...

National Geographic Society Exploration Experience: The Heroic Exploits of the World's Greatest Explorers National Geographic, $50 All the great explorers, from Christopher Columbus and James Cook to John Cabot and Henry Hudson to David Livingstone...

In a field behind Deep River's historical society stands a small glass building shaped like a triangle. It looks like a greenhouse, but there is a U.S. patent for it filed by a local man named Ulysses Pratt. This "bleach house," as it was called, was...

From "Missionary travels and researches in South Africa" by David Livingstone, published in 1858. • • • ...I beheld an elephant and her calf at the end of the valley, about two miles distant. The calf was rolling in the mud, and the dam was standing...