When it finally opened, 50 years ago this month, the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge—honoring the 16th-century Florentine explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano, though not to the extent of spelling his name ...

Built at Harland and Wolff’s shipyard in Belfast, White Star Line’s Britannic was the third of the Olympic-class passenger liners - sister ship to Olympic and Titanic. As a result of the tragedy of ...