The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Lat...

Several distinct periods of Cypriot intercommunal violence involving the two main ethnic communities...

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

Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu (26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), commonly known as Mother Teresa and honour...

Ford Motor Company is an American multinational automaker that has its main headquarter in Dearborn,...

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

Bactria was an ancient region in Central Asia. Bactria proper was north of the Hindu Kush mountain r...

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

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

Joseph "Sepp" Blatter is a Swiss football administrator who was the eighth President of the FIFA (Fr...

Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was a German politician and leader of the Nazi Party (N...

The Eiffel Tower is a wrought-iron lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. It is named ...

Audrey Hepburn (born Audrey Kathleen Ruston; 4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993) was a British actress and...

Gabriel Fernandez (February 20, 2005 – May 24, 2013) was an eight-year-old American boy from Palmdal...

The 1783 Calabrian earthquakes were a sequence of five strong earthquakes that hit the region of Cal...

The Iran–Iraq War began on 22 September 1980, when Iraq invaded Iran, and ended on 20 August 1988, w...

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

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

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

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

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

Shep was the name given to a herding dog that appeared at the Great Northern Railway station one day...

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was a Cuban communist revolutionary and politician who governed the Repub...

The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis of 1962, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Mis...

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

Elizabeth Blackwell (February 3, 1821 – May 31, 1910) was a British physician, notable as the first ...

Theodore John Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, is an American domestic terrorist and former m...

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

Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite (born 22 April 1982, commonly known as Kaká) or Ricardo Kaká, is a ...

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

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

Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (born March 28, 1986), known professionally as Lady Gaga, is an A...

Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating...

The Great Library of Alexandria in Alexandria, Egypt, was one of the largest and most significant li...

This is a timeline of Ancient Chinese dynasties, comprising important legal and territorial changes ...

Elizabeth Anne Holmes is an American former biotechnology entrepreneur convicted of criminal fraud. ...

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

The Mona Lisa is a half-length portrait painting by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci. It is cons...

Bank fraud is the criminal act of breaching the security measures of a financial institution to stea...

The Conflict in Myanmar is a series of primarily ethnic conflicts within Myanmar that began shortly ...

Sooronbay Sharipovich Jeenbekov is a Kyrgyz politician, and the President of Kyrgyzstan. He official...

Kobe Bean Bryant (August 23, 1978 – January 26, 2020) was an American professional basketball player...

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

Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corp., Ltd, commonly referred to as OPPO, is a Chinese cons...

LeBron Raymone James Sr. (born December 30, 1984) is an American professional basketball player for ...

Michael Ballack is a retired German footballer. He is among the top goal scorers in the history of ...

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

Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and...

World War II (often abbreviated WWII or WW2), also known as Second World War, was a global war that ...

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernme...

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

MacOS is a series of proprietary graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Apple Inc. si...

Cleopatra VII Philopator was Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, and its last active ruler. A m...

The Second Boer War (11 October 1899 – 31 May 1902) was fought between the British Empire and two Bo...

The 1970 Ancash earthquake (also known as the Great Peruvian earthquake) occurred on 31 May off the ...

League of Legends (LoL) is a multiplayer online battle arena video game developed and published by R...

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

The Denmark expedition, also known as the Denmark Expedition to Greenland's Northeast Coast, was an ...

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is an American multinational technology company he...

The Hillsborough disaster was a fatal human crush during an association football match at Hillsborou...

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

Justinian I also known as Justinian the Great, was the Eastern Roman emperor from 527 to 565....

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

The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the Central Intelligen...

Egyptian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Premier League club Liverpool and the Eg...

Ruby Nell Bridges Hall (born September 8, 1954) is an American civil rights activist. She was the fi...

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (born 2 March 1931) is a Russian and formerly Soviet politician. The e...

An actor, known for American Pickers, born October 11, 1965....

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

Hồ Chí Minh was a Vietnamese revolutionary and politician. He served as Prime Minister of North Viet...

Itzak Stern (25 January 1901 – 1969) was a Polish-Israeli Jewish Holocaust survivor who worked for S...

Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, ...

Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden (March 10, 1957 – May 2, 2011), also rendered Usama bin Ladin,...

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

The history of libraries began with the first efforts to organize collections of documents. Topics o...

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

Steven Allan Spielberg is an American filmmaker. He is considered one of the founding pioneers of th...

Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. born November 20, 1942) is an American politician who served as the 47th ...

Waghya, (meaning tiger in Marathi), was a mixed-breed pet dog of Maratha king Shivaji Maharaj, known...

The Great Wall of China is the collective name of a series of fortification systems generally built ...

The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China ...

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. The line-up of John Lennon, Paul ...

The Brunei revolt was a December 1962 insurrection in the British protectorate of Brunei by opponen...

The September 11 attacks (also referred to as 9/11) were a series of four coordinated terrorist atta...

Meghan, Duchess of Sussex (born on August 4th, 1981) is an American former actress and a member of t...

The Croatian War of Independence was fought from 1991 to 1995 between Croat forces loyal to the gove...

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

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

Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi was an Indian politician, stateswoman and a central figure of the Indian...

Xerox Holdings Corporation (also known simply as Xerox) is an American corporation that sells print ...

Qaboos bin Said Al Said (18 November 1940 – 10 January 2020) was the Sultan of Oman from 23 July 197...

John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes (5 June 1883 – 21 April 1946), was a British economist whose i...

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

Elena Jane Goulding (30 December 1986) is an English singer and songwriter. Her career began when sh...

Saint Patrick's Day, or the Feast of Saint Patrick (Irish: Lá Fhéile Pádraig, "the Day of the Festiv...

Angela Dorothea Merkel is a German politician serving as Chancellor of Germany since 2005. She serve...

Hirohito was the 124th Emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession, reigning f...

The FIFA World Cup was first held in 1930, when FIFA, the world's football governing body, decided t...

Severo Ochoa de Albornoz (24 September 1905 – 1 November 1993) was a Spanish physician and biochemis...

Dwight David Eisenhower (October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969) was an American politician and soldier w...