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Relive the dramatic fall of Constantinople in 1453, the siege that ended the Byzantine Empire and reshaped world history. This video explores the Ottoman assault led by Sultan Mehmed II, the massive ...

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At the eastern edge of the Peloponnese, facing the open waters of the Laconian Sea, rises a limestone promontory a mile long ...

Control of the Mediterranean has been one of the most important triggering factors of the constant conflicts that marked the ...

FOR 16 harrowing hours, 16 strong men and women endured an unimaginable ordeal confronted by a madman with a pump-action shotgun. A group of barristers, one of whom was pregnant. Two Indian IT workers ...

Through Google Earth’s lens, we retrace the dramatic Fall of Constantinople in 1453. In just one minute, we chart the city’s imposing walls, the Ottoman siege led by Mehmed II, and the moment the ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A later flight near the Florida beach in 85-degree weather. While I solve that excruciating complication of life’s worry, the sports world was rocked Thursday evening by the ...