On Sept. 17, 1787, the U.S. Constitution, completed in Philadelphia, was signed by a majority of the 55 delegates to the ...

The Founders abhorred a judiciary more loyal to the Crown than to the rule of law. But now the independent system they ...

NEWSREEL NARRATOR: Already an iron curtain had dropped around Poland, Hungary ... (bell clanging) The State Department was created in 1789. Its diplomats, appointed by presidents, had always ...

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has said that Ukraine will not get Poland's consent to join the European Union unless it ...

You might have been extra cautious on Friday the 13th, but really you should be on high alert on these days that are actually ...

Emperor Frederick Barbarossa issues the ‘Privilegium Minus’ decree, which elevates Austria to a duchy. 1394: Jews are expelled from ...

WARSAW, Sept 9 (Reuters) - The level of Poland's longest river, the Vistula, has fallen to a record low, the meteorological office said, leaving sandbanks exposed in Warsaw and water so shallow a ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Before it can become central and eastern Europe’s largest transport hub, Poland’s new airport could ...

This was the case of Prussia, a former duchy that in the early 1700s emerged from the shadow of Poland and the Holy Roman ... The phrase appeared in a 1789 biography, published after his death.

This was the second faience manufacturer founded in Poland, after Stanisław August’s factory in Belvedere, near Warsaw. It was also the first Polish china manufacturer in production in the country ...

In Poland, dozens of small towns have declared themselves free of "LGBT ideology". Politicians' hostility to gay rights has become a flashpoint, pitting the religious right against more liberal ...