AvatarRick TimmerBarbary Pirates: The Raiders Who Terrorized the Mediterranean For Centuriesworldatlas.com - Connor BrightonPiracy, especially in the Western context is usually associated with the kind of pirate typical within the Caribbean and the New World roughly …
AvatarRick TimmerTowering Colossus of Constantine reconstructed in RomeRaw Story - Agence France-PresseTwo giant feet, a knee, a bicep and an enormous head -- archaeologists have reassembled these few marble fragments to reconstruct the Colossus of …
AvatarRick TimmerWhat Was The First Movie Ever Made? Inside The Controversial History Of The Oldest Filmallthatsinteresting.com - Erin KellyAlthough some historians credit The Horse in Motion or Arrival of a Train as the first movie ever made, Louis Le Prince's 1888 film Roundhay Garden …
AvatarRick TimmerThe mystery of Johannes Vermeer’s missing artworksfaroutmagazine.co.uk - Poppy BurtonThe magnum opus of Johannes Vermeer, Girl with a Pearl Earring, is shrouded in mystery, an increasingly familiar pattern for works by the Dutch Golden …
AvatarRick TimmerOur Human Ancestors Started Hauling Fish Out of the Water 2 Million Years Agodiscovermagazine.com - Cody CottierWe all know that early humans were avid hunters and gatherers, but fishing has a long, rich history all its own. It may be a global practice that …
AvatarRick TimmerMerovingian Kings Queensworldhistory.org - Harrison W. MarkThe Merovingians were the ruling family of the Franks from roughly 481 CE, when Clovis I rose to power, until 751, when the last Merovingian king was …