Chemin des Dames: The Battle that Triggered the Mutinies of 1917 The Chemin des Dames is a ridge road in northern France that was the site of several major battles during World War I, most notably ...

In the Middle Ages, the imaginary is an integral part of reality. The world of that time cannot be conceived otherwise. Within this panorama, both real and wonderful, plants play a major role in ...

The Portuguese navigator of the 16th century, Ferdinand Magellan, was born on February 3, 1480, in Sabrosa (Portugal). He undertook the very first voyage around the world in 1519: Charles V had ...

How Long Will It Take to Get to Each of the Planets We are 41 million kilometers from Venus, 78 million kilometers from Mars, and 4.3 billion kilometers from Neptune. How long did it take various ...

Over nine hundred years ago, thousands of Europeans set out to reclaim the Holy Sepulchre — a term that symbolically referred to Jerusalem and the surrounding Holy Land. Since then, many myths and ...

Ivan the Terrible (1530–1584) is, for most of our contemporaries, a symbol of Russian history in the 16th century—a period when the separate lands and principalities of Northeast Rus were being united ...

In Arabic, Islam means “submission to God,” and a Muslim is a person “devoted to God.” Like Jews and Christians, Muslims are monotheists. They believe there is only one God who created the world and ...

The Boer War is a conflict that pits the Boers, Dutch-speaking settlers of South Africa, against the British. In the late 18th century, the two communities competed for the colonization of southern ...

The Nemes is the most iconic headdress of the pharaohs, worn from the Old Kingdom to the Ptolemaic period. It is well-known to the public through numerous representations, notably the golden funerary ...

Djoser was the first ancient Egyptian king (Pharaoh) of the 3rd Dynasty (Old Kingdom). He reigned from around 2720 to 2700 BCE, according to some estimates a few decades later in the 27th century BCE.

Aristotle correlates the senses with the elements. Sight and color are linked to fire.

The sea serpent, a legendary sea creature resembling a land snake, is one of the main subjects of interest in cryptozoology. Reports of alleged sea serpent sightings come from various parts of the ...