The World Wars, the moon landing, the invention of the internet, the fall of empires, and civil rights revolutions — history has no shortage of epic, world-altering events. This article is not about ...

The Pig War was a confrontation in 1859 between the United States and the United Kingdom over the British–U.S. border in the San Juan Islands, located between Vancouver Island (present-day Canada) and ...

In 1859, when an American farmer shot a pig on an island that both Britain and America claimed, a twelve-year-long standoff known as the Pig War began. From: AERIAL ...

HERE IT IS! March 1. It is National Pig Day. It is a day we can celebrate the pig. The purpose is to give the pig its rightful place. After all, the pig is one of the most intelligent domesticated ...

JUST AS WITH classic fairy tales, any mention of the Pig War brings lessons to mind: folly, courage, arrogance, the wisdom of restraint. Add an enchanted setting — San Juan Island — and this ...