History

History

Historical fencing, or Historical European Martial Arts (HEMA), seeks to recreate the combat styles of the Middle Ages to the early modern era, emphasizing realism in training.

The enmity between Catholics and Protestants, known as the two confessions, had been one of the organising principles of European life for over four centuries.

Ellsworth recognized historical parallels between the divided United States of today and the 1850s and 1860s, prompting him to explore Lincoln's assassination as a key story.

In the 1930s, Ulam, Banach, and Steinhaus gathered at the Scottish Cafe in Lviv, discussing and documenting their mathematical ideas on marble tabletops.

The film, A Huey P. Newton Story, based on his 1966 creation of the BPP's "A 10-Point Plan for Social Reform," went on to win multiple awards. Fredrika Newton realized that this invaluable cache of materials needed to be preserved and archived.

The Kedermister Library, founded around 1613, is a historical treasure located in St Mary's Church, featuring over 300 books, including an 11th-century manuscript on loan to the British Library.

The heat was 10,000 times hotter than the sun's surface, completely vaporizing instrument-containing balloons tethered to the tower. The tower disintegrated as well.

Herod's grand building program included major works at Caesarea Maritima, Jerusalem, Herodium, Samaria, Jericho, and desert fortresses, spanning from 35 to 10 BCE.

The excavation in Tuam, which has begun, will uncover the remains of about 800 unidentified infants and young children buried in mass graves for over 65 years.

History comes alive through stories. These narratives not only preserve facts but also represent shared values and teach us who we are and aspire to be.

The drugstore beetle, also known as the bread beetle, is often found among dried foodstuffs like grains, flour and spices. But they also are attracted to the gelatin and starch-based adhesives found in books.

Emma of Normandy was a key figure in English politics for nearly 50 years, serving as wife to King Aethelred the Unready and later to King Cnut.

"So much misery, mud, murder, was nowhere else compressed in so small a space. The ground reeked with gas: was polluted with dead and the debris of a hundred battles."

Excavators were used to excavate the original gap of the ancient Great Wall into a large gap, so that the excavator can pass through the gap, which caused irreversible damage to the integrity of the Ming Great Wall and the safety of cultural relics.

Throughout medieval times, elephants were recognized for their remarkable traits such as intelligence, memory, and loyalty, often highlighted in bestiaries of the era.

The CSMVS has retrofitted three antiquated public buses as mobile mini-museums, plying historiography on the chaotic highways of the world's most populous country. The objective, according to the CSMVS curators, is to engage citizens in an evolving understanding of history that reflects contemporary values.

The timepiece used on the HMS Beagle during Darwin's voyage has been placed under an export bar, allowing time for a UK gallery to purchase it.

It was strange to hold something my grandfather had bought as a boy. The postcard had been passed on to the West Glamorgan Archive Service, which had established Lydia was 16, the eldest of six children living at the address in 1903.

In March 1985, I was likely one of the first American tourists to visit Argentina after a military junta relinquished power. Raúl Alfonsín, a human-rights lawyer, was leading the country's first democratically elected government since the early 1970s.

The scale consists of a scale, still articulated, and five weights in the shape of Greek letters, dating to Late Antiquity (4th-7th centuries A.D.) and estimated to be around 1,600 years old.

Mitchell's work notably chronicles the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, focusing on the harrowing aftermath and consequences of these historical events.

It took him six days to make it through the forest, running for his life amid the chaos caused by an artillery attack and losing sight of his family.

The pronoun hwæt appears around 5,800 times in Old English literature, leading to extensive interpretations and discussions regarding its meaning and context.

In 1956, nearly 60 years ago, the celebrated photographer Arnold Del Carlo snapped this intersection from inside Tiny's Drive-in. Del Carlo could not predict the future. He wasn't clairvoyant, but his photography came close.

In her great-grandfather's photos, Eva Neidlinger recognized places she had visited in Ukraine, linking her family's history with the complex narrative of war and aggression.

The remarkably well-preserved carvings show a figure seated on an ornate boat, pulled by five other individuals while another steers with an oar.

PARIS ― The great drouth, unprecedented in more than 50 years, daily is increasing its damage in all sections of France. Prices of vegetables are rising instead of lowering, as is usual at this season of the year, but that is a minor detail compared with the serious effect of the results likely upon crops, orchards and vines, and ultimately upon exchange. Almost day by day the clouded skies have aroused hopes, but only a few drops of rain have fallen, while in many localities hail storms have proved ruinous.

The Hotel Oloffson in Port-au-Prince, a historical landmark and cultural hub, has been destroyed amid rising gang violence, marking a significant loss for the community.

Grief had immense and far-reaching consequences for three medieval Iberian queens, particularly in how they expressed their mourning and navigated widowhood.

Nicknames in the Viking Age were essential for identifying individuals in a society that primarily used patronyms. They reflected a person's traits, reputation, or origins.

In retirement, General Washington is even greater than he was during the Revolution. His decision to relinquish command in 1783 shocked the world.

The trebuchet was the most fearsome weapon of medieval times, a giant catapult that could lay waste to any fortress by battering its walls with boulders.

Alva Vanderbilt Belmont was a prominent Gilded Age socialite who married a Vanderbilt railroad heir, becoming a significant figure in high society and later in the women's suffrage movement.