Explore what happened today in history for April 27. Learn about Magellan’s end, Samuel Morse’s birth, the independence of ...

It’s hard to believe that railroad history buff Matthew Wolff didn’t grow up in Blair County. Ridgway native Wolff, 26, is ...

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Most Americans are taught that Christopher Columbus was the first European to discover North America. However, the story of Leif Erikson proves that’s a lie. This hard-living Viking came from a long ...

Conversations about the birth of the information age often include mention of people like Ray Tomlinson, who is credited with inventing email, and Vint Cerf, who co-created the architecture that ...

Iran’s internet shutdown has reduced connectivity by 99 percent, with air strikes likely causing additional outages, and few workarounds remaining. In these situations, and by the regime’s design, the ...

The saga of the Glomar Explorer begins with the disappearance of a Russian submarine, the K-129, in the Pacific Ocean about 1,560 miles northwest of Hawaii on March 8, 1968. Russian vessels tried to ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The last time Greenland played a starring role in American foreign policy, the United States government sent a Marin millionaire on a secret mission. In the ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NBC News' Chloe Melas speaks with explorer Colin O'Brady, the first person to cross Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf solo and ...

Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth (1802-1856), an ancestor of the artistic Wyeths, made two journeys to Oregon to establish a business empire, only to return East in failure. Once home, he never crossed the ...