Young George Wendall Muller couldn't imagine a more tedious job as he watched the tuner plunking away at the keys of his mother's piano in their Fort Wayne, Ind., living room. Strike a key, yank the ...

While the reigns of George I and II had been marked by a royal detachment from the administration of American colonies, King George III asserted his claim on the colonies strenuously. The king saw the ...

Deep in the African jungle, a baby named George, the sole survivor of a plane crash, is raised by gorillas. George grows up to be a buff and lovable klutz who has a rainforest full of animal friends: ...

George Emil Palade, universally hailed as the founder of modern cell biology for his many discoveries and insights into the structure and function of eukaryotic cells, died on 7 October at the age of ...

George Catlin set out to reach "every tribe of Indians on the Continent of North America," and to produce "faithful portraits...views of their villages, games, &c." His Sioux Encamped on the Upper ...

For Americans, the world seemed to turn upside down in 1968. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated in April. In response, race riots broke out in some 125 cities across the nation; the riot in ...