One name that sticks out to new ears is Stock, a village south of Chelmsford and in the parliamentary constituency of Maldon. The University of Nottingham says Stock could mean 'Hereweard's outlying ...

Here are some of the Old English names for places around Essex. Fingringhoe near Colchester means the "hill-spur of the Fingringas". This is a tribal name translating into the "people who dwell on the ...

Faith was at the forefront on the 30th anniversary of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building bombing. St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral in Oklahoma City, less than one mile away from where the bombing ...

A professor's casual hike in the High Sierra turned into a new elevation record for California's highest tree, the Jeffrey pine, which wasn't formerly known to grow at extreme elevations.

When people think of the historical “Celts,” they are really thinking of the various peoples that lived across the European continent adjacent to the ancient Greeks and Romans and in Britain during ...

How do you even begin to find your perfect choice out of the literal millions of names in the world? But here's an idea ...

No other country offers such comprehensive, freely available, high-resolution radar scans – a unique resource for science.

Dr Harriet Richardson Blakeman joins Dr Alistair Fair to explore the evolving architecture of hydroelectricity, show how the proposals were depicted in a vibrant collection of paintings, and consider ...