Category: History Knowledge

World War I saw the collapse of empires, and among those that were to collapse was the Russian empire of Tsar Nicholas II. When Nicholas

Dans l’univers des photographies historiques, peu sont plus emblématiques que cette image des principaux décideurs politiques de la Maison Blanche regardant et attendant la confirmation

In McCulloch v. Maryland, the Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution gave Congress the right to create a national bank exempt from all state taxes.

The dead cattle stunned the ranchers who found them. The animals’ ears, eyes, udders, anuses, sex organs and tongues had been regularly removed, apparently with

It took nearly a decade after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, DC for U.S. intelligence officials to realize that

One of the most infamous inventions of WWII was the atomic bomb. In August 1946, the United States launched its first (and so far only)

Hollywood royalty, Oscar winner, anti-war activist. Jane Fonda fit all of these descriptions in the late 1970s and 1980s, when she emerged in her final

When the era of communist rule began in Russia in 1917, religion was seen as an obstacle to a flourishing socialist society. Like Karl Marx,

According to tradition, the great English playwright and poet William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon on April 23, 1564. It is impossible to be certain