The first hydraulic telegraph was invented in the fourth century B.C.E. by a Hellenistic writer on the art of war, named ...

The several languages of seafaring come to young readers in a single volume with “Alpha, Bravo, Charlie: The Complete Book of Nautical Codes” (Phaidon, 120 pages, $19.95). Created and illustrated with ...

Emma Webster of Wilmington has been awarded the Girl Scout Silver Award by Girl Scouts -- North Carolina Coastal Pines. The Girl Scout Silver Award is the second highest achievement in Girl Scouting, ...

As a Boy Scout growing up in Dallas, I learned some of the best life lessons I could have ever learned anywhere. I learned Morse code, semaphore, how to survive in the wilderness through camping and ...