As a scholar of 19th-century Haitian history ... today’s Haiti – in the 17th century. In the late 18th century, the enslaved population rebelled and eventually declared independence. In the 19th ...

A facsimile of the 17th-century Dutch documents that Charles Gehring spent 50 years translating, showing the condition of ancient records damaged by floods, in battles, in leaky ship holds and ...

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The vessel is the second of four new logistic support ships (LSS) known as “BRF”, or Jacques Chevallier-class, for the French Navy (Marine Nationale). This important milestone represents the starting ...

"Today we put in a part of the new support structure, one cradle, and it's needed because the ship needs better support ... the new structure around the 17th century warship.

Workers install a new metallic support structure around the 17th-century warship Vasa at the Vasa Museum in Stockholm. Since then, the ship, which is largely intact, has been exhibited at the ...

A Swedish museum has launched a massive four-year project to preserve the sagging hull of the Vasa, a majestic warship that sank nearly 400 years ago and is now one of Sweden's most popular ...

and it's needed because the ship needs better support, because the old one from 1961 doesn't cut it anymore," said project leader Peter Rydebjork, showing off the new structure around the 17th century ...