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,...
The controversial but highly influential Mexican general Antonio López de Santa Anna dominated Mexico during his lifetime to such an extent that he earned the nickname “N...
It is generally accepted that the brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright were the first people in history to fly a powered airplane, on 17 December 1903. Some New Zealanders,...
