Two towering new flagpoles have been installed on the White House grounds after President Donald Trump offered to pay for them himself.The nearly 100-foot-tall poles were installed in the north and ...

: In 1911, two teams of explorers took on the South Pole, and became the first humans to see that part of the planet. Their pictures and artifacts tell a story of triumph and hardship.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The American flag has long flown from a pole on the White House roof, but that’s always been too small for President Donald Trump, who wants everything to be bigger and more ...

In 1957, the iconic striped pole marking the South Pole flies the American flag. ... the affectionate term used for the first U.S. Amundsen-Scott station at the South Pole. (Image credit: NSF, USAP.) ...

NEW YORK CITY — In 1910, two men set out to be the first to reach the South Pole in a race that would be both heroic and tragic. The men had different reasons for their journeys, took different ...

At first, the news of Scott’s fate overshadowed Ponting’s pictures, but after World War I the photographer published his work, to great acclaim, in a book titled The Great White South.