Throughout history, humanity has faced numerous high-stakes moments that could have ended in total catastrophe. From nuclear ...

How many elephants did Hannibal have when crossing the Alps in the Second Punic War? (Thirty-seven is the answer to that last one.) Why do lobsters have to be alive when you boil them? Not long ...

Hannibal was a Carthaginian general who decided to invade the Roman republic in 218 BC. But he clearly wasn’t someone who liked to take the easy option. He decided to take his invading army not around ...

In 1985, a war came to an official end – 2,131 years after its final battle. For centuries during the pre-Christian era, two ...

He did not spare himself in a grueling trek over Maine’s mountains — compared to Hannibal’s crossing of the Alps — to attack Quebec. Mr. Kelly is a novelist who dramatizes scenes, sometimes ...

Unlike the previous two wars, which involved much maneuvering and pitched battles (the Second Punic War saw the Carthaginian general Hannibal crossing the Alps) the third was mostly a siege of ...

This great dog’s ancestors are said to have accompanied Hannibal on his war expeditions ... Regularly seen policing the Swiss Alps, they often measure 27 inches at the shoulder and can weigh as much ...

It has however retained its heavy snowfalls and is also the easiest of the Franco-Italian alpine passes – you may well be skiing in the steps of Hannibal’s elephants ... But by 2010 the link across ...

Jan 30 (Reuters) - The Italian Alps will host the fifth Winter Youth Olympic Games in 2028, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said on Thursday. The Games will be held in Northern ...

(Rooms from about $790 a night) — Aldo Sohm “Those of us who live and grew up in the Alps adore nature and feel that it’s very important to live in harmony with it. If a place is too loud ...