The Bad Beer Brawl: St. Scholastica Day Riot
On the south-west corner of Carfax, in Oxford, a small, inconspicuous inscription on the side of an old building marks the site of one of th...
On the south-west corner of Carfax, in Oxford, a small, inconspicuous inscription on the side of an old building marks the site of one of th...
One of the main characteristics of the most important cities of Antiquity in the Hellenistic kingdoms, first, and in the Roman territories o...
Humans and stegosaurus missed each other by more than 150 million years, but people have always wondered how difficult or terrifying life wo...
The world’s first communication satellite was remarkably unsophisticated—a big silvery plastic balloon coated with aluminum, soaring roughly...
Vladimir Lenin was a controversial Russian revolutionary leader who has been idolized and demonized in equal proportions since his death in ...
Ask anyone, what won the war against Japan during the Second World War, and the answer would invariably be the ‘atomic bomb’, but truth be...
In the valley of the Vajont River, about a hundred kilometers north of Venice, stands an old, disused dam. The vast wall of white, wedged hi...
Head covering, veils and burqas are common sight among many Muslim communities around the world. There are a lot of different styles and ea...
Windmills of Montmartre, Maurice Utrillo. Paris is not exactly hilly, but there are a couple of high points in the city where one can ea...
Büsingen am Hochrhein is a German town with a lot of Swiss character. That’s because this small town on the Rhine is entirely surrounded by ...