A nuclear weapon (also called an atom bomb, nuke, atomic bomb, nuclear warhead, A-bomb, or nuclear b...

The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) was established in 1964 as an interg...

The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 19...

The League of Nations was the first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission...

Stuart Ignatius Long (July 26, 1963 – June 9, 2014) was an American boxer and Catholic priest who de...

Tesla, Inc. (formerly Tesla Motors, Inc.) is an American automotive and energy company based in Palo...

RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in 1912 after the sh...

The 1973 oil crisis or first oil crisis began in October 1973 when the members of the Organization o...

The Heysel Stadium Events occurred on 29 May 1985 when mostly Juventus fans escaping from a breach b...

Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon was the younger daughter of King George VI and Queen Elizabet...

X-ray, or X-radiation, is a penetrating form of high-energy electromagnetic radiation. Most X-rays h...

The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; French: La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a c...

EDżok is a Black mongrel dog (1990–1991), throughout the entire year, Dżok was seen waiting in vain ...

The Roman Kingdom, also referred to as the Roman monarchy, or the regal period of ancient Rome, was ...

Desmond Thomas Doss (February 7, 1919 – March 23, 2006) was a United States Army corporal who served...

The Colombian conflict began in the mid-1960s and is a low-intensity asymmetric war between the gove...

Facebook, Inc. is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Men...

The Spanish flu, also known as the 1918 flu pandemic, was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic. La...

Alfred Bernhard Nobel (21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896) was a Swedish businessman, chemist, engin...

Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, popularly known as Kate Middleton, is a member of the British royal...

Andrew Yang (born January 13, 1975) is an American 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, entrepren...

Qasem Soleimani (11 March 1957 – 3 January 2020) was an Iranian Major General in the Islamic Revolut...

Gita Gopinath has been the Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund since 2019. In that ro...

Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient North Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of th...

The Algerian War, also known as the Algerian War of Independence or the Algerian Revolution was foug...

PlayStation Network (PSN) is a digital media entertainment service provided by Sony Interactive Ente...

The First Indochina War (generally known as the Indochina War in France, and as the Anti-French Resi...

The Scythians Saka, Sakae, Iskuzai, or Askuzai, were an ancient nomadic people of Eurasia, inhabitin...

Spiez Castle is a castle in the municipality of Spiez of the Swiss canton of Bern. It is a Swiss her...

The Communist insurgency in Sarawak occurred in Malaysia from 1962 to 1990, and involved the North K...

Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. is a Chinese multinational technology company that provides telecommuni...

DC Comics, Inc. is an American comic book publisher. It is the publishing unit of DC Entertainment, ...

Gary Stephen Webb was an American investigative journalist. He began his career working for newspape...

Gary Leon Ridgway, also known as the Green River Killer, is an American serial killer. He was initia...

Uber Technologies, Inc., commonly known as Uber, is an American multinational ride-hailing company o...

Sojourner Truth (1797 – November 26, 1883) was an African-American abolitionist and women's rights a...

The Revolutions of 1848, known in some countries as the Springtime of the Peoples or the Springtime ...

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American sociologist, ...

Ludwig van Beethoven (baptized 17 December 1770 – 26 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. ...

The Territory of Christmas Island is an Australian external territory comprising the island of the s...

Bart Marshall Millard (born December 1, 1972) is an American singer and songwriter who is best known...

Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a forward for Italian club Juventus and captains the...

The Bosnian War was an international armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina betwee...

Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (22 November 1890 – 9 November 1970) was a French army officer ...

Vasily Grigoryevich Zaytsev (23 March 1915 – 15 December 1991) was a Soviet sniper and a Hero of the...

The national flag of Bhutan is one of the national symbols of Bhutan. The flag features a dragon fro...

Papa John's Pizza is an American pizza restaurant franchise. It runs the fourth largest pizza delive...

Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency invented in 2008 by an unknown person or group of people using the name ...

Carlos Slim Helú (born January 28, 1940) is a Mexican business magnate, engineer, investor and phila...

The 1693 Sicily earthquake struck parts of southern Italy near Sicily, Calabria, and Malta on Januar...

Johann Sebastian Bach (31 March [O.S. 21 March] 1685 – 28 July 1750) was a German composer and music...

The Dahomey Amazons were a Fon all-female military regiment of the Kingdom of Dahomey which existed ...

The Hungarian–Romanian War was fought between the First Hungarian Republic (as the Hungarian Soviet ...

George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician and businessman who served as the 4...

The Nobel Prize is a set of annual international awards bestowed in several categories by Swedish an...

Chocolate is a preparation of roasted and ground cacao seeds that are made in the form of a liquid, ...

The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides interest-free loans and grant...

Hong Kong independence is a movement that advocates Hong Kong becoming an independent sovereign stat...

The Nicaraguan Revolution encompassed the rising opposition to the Somoza dictatorship in the 1960s ...

Coverture (sometimes spelled couverture) was a legal doctrine whereby, upon marriage, a woman's lega...

David Ben-Gurion (16 October 1886 – 1 December 1973) was the primary national founder of the State o...

Alprazolam, sold under the brand name Xanax, among others, is a short-acting benzodiazepine. It is m...

The June 1962 Alcatraz escape was a prison break from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, a maximum-secur...

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) is an American technology entrepreneur and philanthropist...

Marilyn Monroe was an American actress, model, and singer. Famous for playing comic "blonde bombshel...

Christopher Johnson McCandless (February 12, 1968– August 1992), also known by the pseudonym Alexand...

Heinrich Luitpold Himmler was Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (Protection Squadron; SS), and a lea...

The Vietnam War , also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Again...

Christopher Scott Kyle was a United States Navy SEAL sniper. He served four tours in the Iraq War an...

Best Buy Co., Inc. is an American multinational consumer electronics retailer headquartered in Richf...

Marie Skłodowska Curie was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pione...

Aaron Josef Hernandez (November 6, 1989 – April 19, 2017) was a convicted murderer and American foot...

Greyfriars Bobby (May 4, 1855 – January 14, 1872) was a Skye Terrier who became known in 19th-centur...

Angelina Jolie is an American actress, filmmaker, and humanitarian. The recipient of numerous accola...

Harald V is the King of Norway, having ascended to the throne upon the death of his father King Olav...

IKEA is a Swedish-founded multinational group that designs and sells ready-to-assemble furniture, ki...

born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr(January 17, 1942 – June 3, 2016) was an American professional boxer, ...

The Iranian Revolution also known as the Islamic Revolution or the 1979 Revolution, was a series of ...

The Ptolemaic Kingdom was an Ancient Greek state based in Egypt during the Hellenistic Period. It wa...

Black Friday is an informal name for the Friday following Thanksgiving Day in the United States, whi...

Memorial Day is a federal holiday in the United States for remembering and honoring the military per...

Elon Reeve Musk is a business magnate, industrial designer, and engineer. He is the founder, CEO, CT...

Ancient Greece period in Greek history lasting from around 800 BC to its subjection to the Roman Emp...

Ilich Ramírez Sánchez (born 12 October 1949), also known as Carlos the Jackal, is a Venezuelan terro...

Benjamin Banneker (November 9, 1731 – October 19, 1806) was a free African-American almanac author, ...

Martial arts are codified systems and traditions of combat practiced for a number of reasons such as...

Shaquille Rashaun "Shaq" O'Neal (born March 6, 1972) is a retired professional American basketball p...

According to consensus in modern genetics, anatomically modern humans first arrived on the Indian su...

The Ottoman Empire was a state that controlled much of Southeastern Europe, Western Asia, and Northe...

David William Donald Cameron is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kin...

Brazilian former professional footballer and ambassador for Barcelona. He played mostly as an attack...

Father's Day is a day of honoring fatherhood, paternal bonds, as well as the influence of fathers in...

Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, m...

Michael Fred Phelps II (born June 30, 1985) is an American retired competitive swimmer and the most ...

Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O'Connell (born December 18, 2001) is an American singer and songwriter. ...

George Washington (February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799) was an American political leader, military...

A camera is an optical instrument used to record images. At their most basic, cameras are sealed box...

Mao Zedong also known by his courtesy name Mao Runzhi and the title Chairman Mao as Chairman of th...

US Airways Flight 1549 was an Airbus A320 which, in the climbout after takeoff from New York City's ...

Carter Godwin Woodson was an American historian, author, journalist, and the founder of the Associat...