According to legend, San Marino was founded by Marin, a stonecutter from the island of Rab in the Adriatic (modern Croatia). He left Rab during the time of Emperor Diocle...
On this day in 459 St. Simeon Stylites, a well-known ascetic, died. He reportedly spent the last 37 or 39 years living on a small platform on the top of a pillar (the sai...
The famous Woodstock festival, a musical festival which attracted a very large number of hippies, was held on this day in 1969. It is interesting that the festival wasn...
On this day, the completion of the famous Cologne Cathedral was solemnly announced. The Cathedral is one of the greatest symbols of Catholicism in Germany. It is an excep...
This day marked the solemn opening of one of the most famous opera houses in the world, the “Scala” in Milan. Its original name was “Nuovo Regio Ducale Teatro alla Scala“...
South African Orange Province, where he was born, was at that time an autonomous Boer State (Boers are descendants of Dutch immigrants in the southern part of Africa). On...
This day is often considered the beginning of the Tokugawa family’s reign over Japan. Thus began the so-called Tokugawa shogunate, a period that lasted a full 268 years,...