Lucius Bierce is all but forgotten now, as is his “Great Patriot War” that sought to "liberate" Canada from British rule in 1838. That’s understandable: Canadians don’t commemorate their military ...

PRESENTER:'This is the Pearl River, 'and this is the great city of Guangzhou, 'what the Europeans call Canton. PRESENTER:And it was here, in the mid-1700s, that the destinies of China and the ...

GUSTAV THEODOR FRITSCH, a pioneer in the physiology of the brain and one of the last great personalities of the classic period of German medicine, was born on March 5, 1838. He received his ...

DR. JACOB DA SILVA SOLIS-COHEN, the founder of laryngology in the United States, was born in New York City on February 28, 1838, of distinguished Spanish and Portuguese ancestry. He received his ...