Today it is universally known that the brain is the seat of human consciousness and the organ which controls the rest of our body. However, it took our ancestors a very l...
The Mons family was one of the many immigrant families who lived in St. Petersburg’s German Quarter during the time of Peter the Great. Although they weren’t nobility, th...
In the popular imagination, the antiwar movement during the U.S. intervention in Vietnam was comprised of young people, especially college students. After all, they are m...
Wilhelm II, popularly known as Kaiser Wilhelm, was the last Emperor of Germany and is best known for leading that country in World War I. He pursued a rather aggressive f...
The mighty warlord Attila, known as Attila the Hun or the Scourge of God, ruled a vast territory that stretched from the Ural River in the east to the Rhine River in the...
In the year 1233, Pope Gregory IX issued a papal bull titled Vox in Rama (A Voice in Rama), which condemned a German heresy known as Luciferian, a form of devil worship....
The highway designated BR-116 runs north-south along the Brazilian coastline. It is the second longest highway in the entire country – almost 4,400 km. Due to its unstabl...
The Egyptians were one of the first civilizations to domesticate cats, around 2000 BC. Cats were considered sacred animals in Egypt, and associated with certain deities,...
