Anne of Cleves. Painitng by Barthel Bruyn the Younger.It seems unfair that Anne of Cleves, the fourth wife of King Henry VIII, is known throughout ...

Winston Churchill with Charlie Chaplin in 1929.Early life and educationWinston Leonard Spencer-Churchill was born on the 30th of November, 1874, at ...

  This is Beerlonging Hosted by Mark, Rob and Steve featuring beer chat, beery adventures, and reverbeerations. This month we’re talking about changes ...

John S. Mosby.Slave Owners Rebellion?It is said that the most robust support for secession came from the areas that had the most slaveowners. Based on ...

Adam Gurowski.Count Adam Gurowski: History and Political Activity in EuropeAdam Gurowski was born on September 10, 1805, into a family of noble origins ...

An illustration of Hero’s aeolipile.Life of Hero of AlexandriaHero's precise dates of birth and death are not well-documented, but he is thought to have ...

General Hugh Judson Kilpatrick.Early YearsKilpatrick graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1861, shortly after the war began, and was ...

Only six weeks away from Indigenous People’s Day, and tucked away in the Andaman archipelago, is a small island known as North Sentinel. It’s not only ...

Today, I would like to tell you a story. A story about a sinister conspiracy, a lost and noble prince, an evil tyrant, and a war over the soul of an ...

Portrait of a scholar (Archimedes?). Domenico Fetti, 1620.Early life and educationArchimedes was born into a family connected to the ruling elite of ...