List of All Articles with Tag 'history'

The Al-Shifa director says people are "screaming from thirst", as Israel says its "discreet" search continues.

Netflix’s 'The Crown'—a royal family drama, and one of the most expensive TV shows ever made—is coming to an end.

Furby was a toy sensation for ’90s kids, but these chatty, distinctive-looking fluffballs are still captivating youngsters to this day.

The BBC enters hospital with Israeli forces and views small cache of weapons and other items they say was found there.

The BBC has been looking in detail at how the casualty figures are totalled.

A total of 23 Irish citizens have exited Gaza through the Rafah crossing, Micheál Martin says.

Israel is limiting use of the fuel to aid lorries and not hospitals, the UN says.

Allies are starting to change their tune as Israel troops enter Gaza's largest hospital.

Solmization, or the practice of assigning syllables to the different “steps” of the scale, originated in ancient India.

It’s the unofficial start of the holiday shopping season, but where did this tradition start? And just how big is it?

In 1864, the Jewish poet Ludwig August Frankl named blue and white “the colors of Judah” in a poem not so surprisingly called “Judah’s Colours.”

You think you’ve seen every category of words … then you find this batch, including such oddities as tableclothwise and rabbitwise.