The Church publishes the Monitor because it sees good journalism as vital to progress in the world. Since 1908, we’ve aimed “to injure no man, but to bless all mankind,” as our founder ...

Designed to guide sailors to safe shores and warn them about storms, steep rocks, obstructions, and other hazards, lighthouses have been around for centuries, and the most aesthetic of them have ...

The Svortuloft Lighthouse is located on the western point of the Snaefellsnes Peninsula in Iceland. This lighthouse is located on the edge of a 2.5-mile-long cliff. Most travellers like to visit ...

The earliest lighthouses were simply bonfires built on hillsides to guide ships. The first light served the old world city of Alexandria in 285 B.C. The first American light came to life in 1716 ...

Excavations around the approximately 26-meter-tall lighthouse have revealed thousands of original building stones, with around 1,600 stones replaced so far as part of the restoration efforts ...