In 1844 one of France’s most well-known and popular books was published in serial format. Les Trois Mousquetaires, better known in the Anglophone world as The Three Musketeers, was written by the French novelist Alexandre Dumas. Based in the 1620s during the reign of King Louis XIII of France, it tells the story of a young man […]
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In the National Archives of the United Kingdom in London, there are two volumes of a work produced in medieval England at the end of the thirteenth and start of the fourteenth centuries. Known as the Liber Feodorum or Book of Fees, this text records feudal landholdings in England or lands effectively held by individuals directly from the
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The Peloponnesian War was the world war of ancient Greek times. Between 431 BC and 404 BC, the entire Greek world was dragged into it. This included not just the Greek mainland and the Greek islands but vast parts of the Black Sea and the Mediterranean, even as far west as Sicily, where Greek colonies
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In the annals of Victorian pulp fiction, the character of Sweeney Todd, otherwise known as the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, occupies a prominent position. From his first appearance in print in some serialized Penny Dreadfuls in the 1840s, he appeared in numerous different stories. The tale, in brief, is about a barber who kills
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Africa is a continent that is rich in history and culture. While most people are familiar with ancient Egyptian and African civilizations, many more kingdoms and empires have played a significant role in the continent’s history. This article will discuss eight African kingdoms and empires that you probably never heard of but were influential in
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Performances in theater and movies often draw from real-life experiences for inspiration. Take Hamilton, a musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda, for example. It was based on the life of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton and his complicated relationship with Aaron Burr. Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr had one of the most complex relationships in American history. What made
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Humans have played ball games as far back as recorded history will go. We can trace ancient ball games to the Mayans, Mesoamerica, and to ancient China. For example, there are records of a game called cuju in China played in 2300BC, cu meant kick, and ju meant ball. The aim of the game was
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In Norse mythology, Yggdrasil was the tree that connected the nine worlds. It was a massive ash tree sacred to the gods but simultaneously made of the fabric of reality. Yggdrasil was so important that it even had its god, Odin, responsible in some way for the creation of the nine realms. Yggdrasil somehow connected
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The world we live in today would not exist the way it does have it not been for the Industrial Revolution. Beginning in England in the 1760s and 1770s, a series of significant changes occurred in the country’s economy, transforming Britain. Other nations soon adopted these innovations, notably the United States, Germany, France, and Russia.
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The First World War was a global conflict that lasted from 1914 to 1918. It involved most of the world’s great powers, which assembled in two opposing alliances: the Allies and the Central Powers. More than 70 million military personnel were mobilized in one of the world’s largest wars. Over nine million combatants and seven
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