The sabre owes its heritage to the Middle Eastern scimitar and the 18th-century cavalry sword ... Scoring occurs with any part of the blade, including the edges. The epee (the French word for 'sword') ...

THE WATCH FILES The historic Geneva manufacture and the world’s most prestigious museum, which were both founded in the 18th century, have forged a strategic alliance. Many (...) Three new dial colour ...

“In many ways, the discipline of natural history in the 18th century was roughly analogous to technology today: a means of disrupting old markets, creating new ones, and generating fortunes in ...

As generations of schoolchildren were taught, Elizabeth I of England famously said 'I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of ...

I argue that race was institutionalized beginning in the 18th century as a worldview, a set of culturally created attitudes and beliefs about human group differences. Slavery and the Coming of ...

The invention of the balloon struck the men and women of the late 18th century like a thunderbolt. Enormous crowds gathered in Paris to watch one balloon after another rise above the city rooftops, ...

Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island or Te Pito o Te Henua (the navel of the world), is one of the most remote inhabited ...

New DNA analysis adds to growing research indicating the famous Pacific island did not collapse from overuse of resources ...

For example, the import duty on tea raised its price by around 70 per cent by the middle of the 18th century. Smuggling was usually organised by gangs, who were funded by investors or venturers.

Two recent studies have cast doubt on a popular theory that the ancient residents of Easter Island suffered a societal ...

The remains of a sailor believed to be from an 18th Century shipwreck are set to be buried in a Cornish town. Cornwall Council said the discovery was made on a cliff above Newtrain Bay in Trevone ...

Pirate & 18th century classes cover maritime cutlass ... Sport fencing classes teach the standard weapons: foil, saber, and epee. Besides weekly classes, we also do demonstrations and teaching at ...