America was supposed to be the land of the free and Germany was the land where fascists...
History
Picture this: you are sitting in your living room, scrolling through social media on your phone. Suddenly,...
Script developed from simple to more complex writing systems. Introduction Script is the written expression of a language. Cuneiform,...
The language of the original Macedonians existed long before Macedonia became a powerful state. Introduction To get...
Esperanto, Klingon, “Oirish,” and others. John Wallis is all but forgotten except among historians and mathematicians, but...
The steam engine was perhaps the most important invention of the Industrial Revolution. Introduction The Rocket was a pioneering...
On Sept. 30, 1968, the first Boeing 747 rolled off the assembly line. Introduction On Sept. 30,...
The story of how the LRL came to be built has been largely relegated to footnotes in...
Gambling has been an intrinsic part of human civilization for centuries, spanning across different cultures and eras....
It’s likely that you have already heard of and perhaps even use CBD. CBD is the shortened...
It served as a network for trade and migration. The Shenandoah Valley’s history marks it as a...
The era popularized an idea of wilderness that was rather new. “My favorite season is in midsummer,”...
The two have come to embody the conflicting philosophies at the heart of the American public land...
2019 was a record-setting year for Pennsylvania’s travel industry, with about 211.4 million travelers. Although the COVID-19...
Ancient history that the causes of civil unrest are often the same over time and across societies....
The famed Roman army depended heavily on their allies or ‘alae’. Introduction The Social War (also called the Marsi War and...
Caesarism remained entangled with broader concerns about organizing political rule and managing society. Introduction As has been...
Discourse surrounding the origins of syphilis has a long history of blaming the “other”. In 1876, Joseph...
The combined symptoms do not appear in any ancient medical text or any other part of the...
This highlighted the divergence between reality and long-held ideas about people and place. Before the First World...
Shulgi had three wives and six consorts who gave birth to 18 sons and 13 daughters. Introduction...
A tradition of the subjects sitting in the guise of historical, mythical, or allegorical subjects. By Robert...
Nearly 300 toy productions, also known as juvenile dramas, were published in England between 1811 and 1860....
Buddhist and Jain institutions tried to appropriate independent nature deities and cults into their metaphysical systems. Mythological...
Ancient texts hold the Gutians responsible for the fall of the Akkadian Empire and the desolation of...
A consensus now prevails that the origins of the Korean War date from at least World War...
In two generations, the Florentine trading and banking family became part of the world of papal bureaucracy....
The constraints set upon emotions and behaviour were severe indeed. Introduction: Three Episodes It is summer 1628....
Introduction “The Pope. And how many divisions has he?” Joseph Stalin at the 1943 Teheran conference, responding...
The development of long-distance trade during the Ubaid and Uruk periods led to the invention of writing....