The colonial victory against the British in the American Revolutionary War was far from a predetermined outcome. In addition ...

Seward had been stabbed in the face and neck with a Bowie knife by another conspirator, Lewis Powell. In a near miraculous ...

I pass a bullet-pocked hotel ... The attack was a key part of Al Qaeda's strategy to foment civil war between Shiite and Sunni Muslims in Iraq, thereby sowing chaos, driving out occupying U.S ...

50-caliber bullet, an object that engineers knew went supersonic. It was flown by laconic West Virginian test pilot Chuck Yeager, a veteran World War II ace ... also took civil aviation to new ...

When this country was at war, you ran away ... his experience and the fact that he had had the custody of the bullets, cartridges, shells, and pistols in the case, he swore that one of the ...

For two decades, U.S. law has provided broad protection for gunmakers from civil lawsuits ... purchased a .50-caliber Barrett sniper rifle, capable of shooting armor-piercing bullets the size ...

Mohammed Othman, a Palestinian survivor of the April 13, 1975 attack on a bus carrying Palestinians that sparked Lebanon's civil war, prays over the graves of those killed that day, at the ...

What happened next on April 13, 1975, would change the course of Lebanon, plunging it into 15 years of civil war. It would kill ... with it and peered into bullet holes in its rusted sides.