Sailing Magellan was first to sail around the world, right? Think again.National Geographic - Erin BlakemoreFive hundred years on, the explorer’s legacy is complicated—and contested. Five hundred years ago, Ferdinand Magellan began a historic journey to circumnavigate the globe. Simple, right? Not really— the
Indian Politics Did You Know Shah Jahan was Three Quarters Rajput by Blood?thequint.com - Revati Laul … And that Shivaji, the great Maratha warrior, was also much more cosmopolitan than he’s made out to be today? His grandfather, Maloji, trained under …
Ancient History Genghis Khanancient.eu - Mark Cartwright Genghis Khan (aka Chinggis Khan, c. 1162/67-1227 CE) was the founder of the Mongol Empire (1206-1368 CE) which he would rule from 1206 until his …
Roman Empire Without a Functioning National Government, What’s Left?The Atlantic - James FallowsHere is one more dip into the waters of ancient Rome. For those joining us late: In a “thought experiment” article in the new issue of the print magazine, I ask: What can troubled citizens of today’s learn
Hollywood Cinema 9 Old Hollywood Scandals That Are Almost Unbelievableboredpanda.com - Joanna Few remember that scandalous headlines swirled around Chaplin later in his career. In 1952, long after his reign over the silent era, the British …
Okinawa This Is Why the Battle for Okinawa Was the Most Horrific Fight of World War Iinationalinterest.org - Warfare History Network Very bloody.Key point: The battle for Okinawa as an important fight that had to be won before other operations could commence, but taking it was very …
Culture (India) Pathans and priests in Travancorelivemint.com - Manu S. Pillai In 1780, a Carmelite monk called Fra Bartolomeo obtained an audience with the maharaja of Travancore to deliver a message from Pope Clement XIV. The …
Culture William Blake: The greatest visionary in 200 yearsBBC Culture - By Kelly GrovierA champion of the imagination, William Blake is celebrated in a new retrospective at London’s Tate Britain. Kelly Grovier looks at how the painter and poet helped us “dream outside the sphere”. The Romantic
Long-form Journalism Ship of horrors: life and death on the lawless high seasThe Guardian - Ian UrbinaOn the night of 14 August 2010, the captain of a South Korean trawler, the Oyang 70, left Port Chalmers, New Zealand, for what would be his final journey. The ship was bound for fishing grounds about miles
Jawaharlal Nehru Knowing Nehru Through His Letters —Not Via WhatsApp Forwardsthequint.com - Kiran Menon The year is 1939, and Jawaharlal Nehru has turned fifty years old. In between the routine congratulatory notes and correspondences, he receives a …
Bible A history of the Bible: who wrote it and when?historyextra.com - Amir Adhamy The origins of the Bible are still cloaked in mystery. When was it written? Who wrote it? And how reliable is it as an historical record? Spencer Day …
World News 15 photos we should never forget: True horror of 9/11nzherald.co.nz - NZ Herald On this day 18 years ago, unimaginable horror struck America when four commercial flights were hijacked by terrorists and crashed into sites …
Religion On the anniversary of Swami Vivekananda’s speeches at World Parliament of Religions, a reassessmentscroll.in - Amiya P. Sen, Sahapedia The idea of convening a global religious assembly was suggested by a Chicago lawyer named Charles Carroll Bonney as early as 1889 ahead of the …
History Christ’s communists: the radical religious sect that challenged the Holy Roman Empirehistoryextra.com - HistoryExtraAdmin Six centuries ago in Bohemia, a dissenter army led by a one-eyed warrior waged war on the Holy Roman Empire. Tom Holland tells the story of the …
Mesopotamiahistory.com - By History.com Editors Mesopotamia is a region of southwest Asia in the Tigris and Euphrates river system that benefitted from the area’s climate and geography to host the …
Indiana Jones The origins of the Ark of the Covenantaleteia.org - J-P Mauro The Ark of the Covenant is described in the Bible as a gold-plated wooden chest that contains the two stone tablets engraved with the Ten …
Culture The History of Europe from 400 BC to the Present, Animated in 12 Minutesopenculture.com - by Colin Marshall What does the future of Europe look like? Geopolitical times such as these do make one ponder such questions as, say, "In what shape (if any) will …
Napoleon Bonaparte Who Was Napoleon Bonaparte?Live Science - Owen Jarus Napoleon Bonaparte rose from a family of minor nobles on the French island of Corsica to become ruler of much of continental Europe. After his 1815 …
Israel Defense Forces The first Israel-Iran wartimesofisrael.com - Lou Sandler Do you remember (without using Google), when the last time was that Israel fought a war involving the enemy’s regular army? The answer is 37 years …
Tehran Dump That History Book: Hitler Had 1 Way to Win World War II (Andnationalinterest.org Kuznetsov/Siebert kept pouring the drinks and the inebriated Ortel kept talking, telling Kuznetsov that he would soon depart for the meeting of the …
History The discovery of Petrahistorytoday.com Now a World Heritage Site in the kingdom of Jordan and one of the most compelling archaeological sites in existence, ‘the rose-red city half as old …
Ancient History A History of the Crusadesancient.eu - Mark Cartwright The Crusades were a series of military campaigns waged between Christians and Muslims, Christians and pagans (the Northern Crusades), and Christians …
Myths Was there really a 'Great Flood'?historyextra.com - Emma Mason The myth of a devastating flood sent by a deity to cleanse the world of sin is a widespread one. It is famously found in the Bible, but also in …
History Archaeology Is Telling Us About the Real Jesus: The archaeological and historical evidence behind the birth ofboredpanda.com - Livvy Melba THE OFFICE OF Eugenio Alliata in Jerusalem looks like the home base of any archaeologist who’d rather be in the field dirtying his hands than indoors …
Zia-ul-Haq, the Stephanian Pakistani dictator who feared Indira Gandhitheprint.in - Revathi Krishnan New Delhi: At a press conference of Pakistani president Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq and Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi in New Delhi in 1986, Zia said, …
Hindutva cannot sustain itself on a cow’s legs, said VD Savarkar, points out a new biographyscroll.in - Vaibhav Purandare The differences of the two leaders on how to deal with the tricky question of Hindu–Muslim conflict were deep enough. On the point of how to take …
16 Baffling Facts About the Sistine Chapel Murals That Even Tour Guides Might Not Knowboredpanda.com - Jenny Lynn The murals on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel are one of the biggest pieces of artwork from the Renaissance period that can still be seen today. …
Napoleon lost the Battle of Waterloo—here’s what went wrongNational Geographic - Jean-Noel BrégeonNapoleon made a bold return from exile in 1815 only to lose his last shot at empire in a crushing defeat delivered by the Duke of Wellington and the combined forces of Europe. In the early 1800s Napoleon
Cleopatra May Have Once Smelled Like This Recreated Perfumesmithsonianmag.com - Jason Daley Cleopatra VII, the last ruler of Egypt before the Romans took power, has been described as both beautiful and not so beautiful in ancient histories. …
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