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Sultan Mehmed III intentionally had his 19 brothers executed as his very first official act after taking over Ottoman ...

Tossing Iguanas and riding tortoises, Darwin’s expedition to the Galápagos seemed childishly irresponsible at times, but it ...

Wartime transportation has always existed, as war consumes supplies as well as lives. However, transportation expanded during ...

In 1967, a medical first stunned the world and brought international attention to Christiaan Barnard, a young doctor from Cape Town.

In an unlikely turn of events, legendary dancer Josephine Baker became a spy for the French Resistance during World War II.

The Plantation of Ulster was a major colonial enterprise that transformed a formerly rebellious province into a stronghold for the British Crown in Ireland. The process of how Ulster became Protestant ...

From 1918 to 1933, Germany lived through a dramatic yet remarkable period of extreme political instability and outstanding cultural upheaval. The Weimar Republic, installed after Germany’s loss in ...

In One Hundred Years of Solitude, author Gabriel Garcia Marquez introduces readers to the fictional Buendia family living in the Central American town of Macondo. Telling the story of six generations ...

Ancient Mesopotamia was home to diverse peoples with different origins, cultures, and languages. But, over the course of two millennia, the Sumerians, Babylonians, Assyrians, and Elamites all built ...