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Siddharta Gautama is known to be the founder of Buddhism, which is considered an important religion in many Asian countries. But what is the...
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In the 1930s, the Southern Plains region of the United States went through a dry period of severe drought and dust storms. The name...
Born at Porbandar in the Indian state of present-day Gujrat in October 1869, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was the son of the chief minister of...
Vasco da Gama was born into a noble family around the 1460s in Sines, a small town in Portugal. His father, Estevao da Gama...
The Bermuda Triangle, or Devil’s Triangle, covers an area of 500,000 square miles of the Atlantic Ocean off the southeastern tip of Florida. This...
In the northeastern province of Persia, Khorasan suffered the most terrible devastation from the onslaught of the Mongol armies than any other country that...
Rising to power as the leader of the Nazi Party in the 1920s, Adolf Hitler became the main architect of the Second World War....
The Greek Gods is a pantheon that consists of 12 different deities that all resided on Mount Olympus. These Gods were the center of...
In 2001, on September 11th, 19 militants related to the Islamic extremist group known as Al Qaeda hijacked four separate airplanes to carry out...
One of the most influential writers and the greatest dramatist of all time, William Shakespeare occupies an exclusively unique position in the world of...
Siddharta Gautama is known to be the founder of Buddhism, which is considered an important religion in many Asian countries. But what is the...
Fourteen countries and 227,898 people suffered from the Tsunami of December 2004. It was one of the most devastating and deadliest natural disasters in...
The ‘Konfrontasi’ as those in Indonesia called it, was a confrontation between the British Commonwealth forces and Indonesian forces. The dispute was over whether...
Greece is the cradle of Western civilization and the birthplace of democracy. The country has produced some of the most famous and influential philosophers...
Thomas Alva Edison was a genius. He holds to his name a record number of 1,091 patents! The phonograph, the lightbulb, and early motion...
Liberal military officials who were against the conservative ideas and views of Tsar Nicholas I organized a revolt that they thought would pave the...
Anton Chekhov is considered one of Russia’s greatest playwrights and is called the master of modern short stories. But who was Anton Chekhov really?...
Serfdom is the term to describe the institutional system that forced peasants to provide labor to landlords to let them occupy the land. Serfdom...
June marks the start of hurricane season in the United States. Researchers and meteorologists research and make predictions about what to expect each year....
Who was she? And what happened to Amelia Earhart? This article will hopefully answer all some of your pressing questions, but the rest is...