history

“Love is as varied as people are.”...

The Yamnaya archaeological complex appeared around 3300BCE across the steppes north of the Black and Caspian Seas, and by 3000BCE reached its maximal extent from Hungary in the west to Kazakhstan in the east. To localize the ancestral and geographical origins of the Yamnaya among the diverse Eneolithic people that preceded them,...

Great American hero items to be in the hands of a private person. Just upset its not gonna be me.

The Banana Wars were a series of US military interventions in Latin America from 1898 to 1934. Why are they relatively understudied, and why are they called banana wars?

*The first thing you should know is that Abyssinia was located in Ethiopia with its capital in Addis Ababa, and Abyssinia included countries such as Djibouti, Somalia, Eritrea, Sudan and Kenya, all of this area was called Abyssinia, and it was the third most powerful kingdom on earth after the Romans and Persians. Another thing...

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There are people whose names remain alive forever, even when they leave the world, and these names live their personal lives separately from them, gaining a kind of autonomy. People forget, with the succession of times, the significance of first names and their association with their owners, for example, who knows that the...

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Lola Montez had a strange, rare, and unique combination of beauty, intelligence, and attractiveness. She was famous for her many relationships with men, not just any men, but she chose the man who could always put her in a high social and financial position. Lola Montez was born in 1818, the daughter of a British army officer,...

The birth of Vlad III and his father Vlad II was preceded by centuries of conflicts between Muslims and Christians, known as the Crusades In 1408 the order of the Dragon Crusaders was formed to defend Catholicism against Ottoman Muslims and Orthodox Christians Vlad III is one of the most difficult characters in history because...

At the height of the Great Famine in 1960, a group of students exiled to the countryside launched a magazine that dared to tell the truth. Their convictions, and the love they bore for one another, were put to the test.