William Harford, a British Royal Navy gunner with ties to Jamestown, is pictured in his sailor’s uniform with an unknown woman, believed to be his wife at a young age. Harford was present during the ...

Look for the helpers; they're usually the ones running toward trouble. In December 1917, the helpers were the citizens of Boston, Massachusetts. A 2.9 kiloton explosion rocked the harbor of Halifax, ...

The Halifax Explosion of 1917” by American writer Sally M. Walker has been published in Persian. Cheshmeh is the publisher of the book translated b ...

As the scope of the August 4 explosion at the port of Beirut becomes clear, the tolls of the loss of life, injuries, homelessness and property damage are staggering. In the immediate chaos of large ...