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 ...

Morse code, the language of the telegraph, is a system of communication that's composed of combinations of short and long tones that represent the letters of the alphabet. The tones are sometimes ...

Inside the Supreme Court chamber of the U.S. Capitol on May 24, 1844, Samuel F.B. Morse sat down to make history. The moment was the culmination of more than 12 years of work, and it was only in the ...

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, ...