Plague is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. Symptoms include fever, wea...

Bernard Jean Étienne Arnault (born March 5, 1949) is a French billionaire business magnate, and art ...

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

The Falklands War was a 10-week undeclared war between Argentina and the United Kingdom in 1982 over...

Nike, Inc. is an American multinational corporation that is engaged in the design, development, manu...

Hurricane Katrina was an extremely destructive and deadly Category 5 hurricane that made landfall on...

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

The Ten-Day War, or the Slovenian Independence War, was a brief conflict that followed the Slovenian...

Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States from 1...

Elizabeth was born in Mayfair, London, as the first child of the Duke and Duchess of York (later Kin...

Operation Mincemeat was a successful British deception operation of the Second World War to disguise...

The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from...

Argentine professional footballer who plays as a forward and captains both FC Barcelona and the Arge...

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

Marvel Studios, LLC (originally known as Marvel Films from 1993 to 1996) is an American film studio ...

A computer is a machine that can be instructed to carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical opera...

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

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

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

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

Between 2008 and 2011, a series of rapes in the suburbs around Seattle and Denver were perpetrated b...

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

Reddit is an American social news aggregation, web content rating, and discussion website. Registere...

Corona-viruses are a group of viruses that cause diseases in mammals and birds. In humans, the virus...

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

Jacintha Darlene Gardner was born on 5 October 1985. She is the daughter of Chris Gardner. Her broth...

Paul Joseph Goebbels (29 October 1897 – 1 May 1945) was a German Nazi politician and Reich Minister ...

Sayyid Ruhollah Mūsavi Khomeini (24 September 1902 – 3 June 1989), also known in the Western world a...

Jamal Ja'far Muhammad Ali Al Ibrahim (1 July 1954 – 3 January 2020), known by the kunya Abu Mahdi al...

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

Akio Morita was a Japanese businessman and co-founder of Sony along with Masaru Ibuka....

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

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

The Library of Congress (LC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congre...

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

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

Hendrik Johannes Cruijff OON (25 April 1947 – 24 March 2016) was a Dutch professional football playe...

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American statesman and lawyer who served...

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

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence o...

The Cilicia earthquake occurred northeast of the city of Adana in 1268. Over 60,000 people perished ...

The air planes accidents happened in the twentieth century....

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

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

A microprocessor is a computer processor that incorporates the functions of a central processing uni...

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

An antibiotic is a type of antimicrobial substance active against bacteria and is the most important...

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

Ibrahim Pasha was a general in the Egyptian army and the eldest son of Muhammad Ali, the Wāli and un...

Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, t...

The James Bond series focuses on a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer ...

The Mamluk Sultanate was a medieval realm spanning Egypt, the Levant and Hejaz that established itse...

The flag of the United States of America, often referred to as the American Flag or U.S. flag, is th...

The Bank of America Corporation (simply referred to as Bank of America, often abbreviated as BofA) i...

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

Penicillin (PCN or pen) is a group of antibiotics, derived originally from common moulds known as Pe...

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

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

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

The 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état was an event late that February in which the Communist Party of Cz...

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

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

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

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

Juan Carlos I is a member of the Spanish royal family who reigned as King of Spain, from 1975 until...

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

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

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

Shakira Isabel Mebarak is a Colombian singer, songwriter, dancer, businesswoman, and philanthropist...

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

The unification of Italy was the 19th-century political and social movement that resulted in the con...

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE, nicknamed "The Big Board") is an American stock exchange in the F...

Silvio Berlusconi (born 29 September 1936) is an Italian media tycoon and politician who has served ...

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader, and ph...

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

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

The 2008 Sichuan earthquake also known as the Great Sichuan earthquake or Wenchuan earthquake, occur...

Christopher Paul Gardner (born February 9, 1954) is an American businessman and motivational speaker...

The United States Invasion of Panama, codenamed Operation Just Cause occurred between mid-December 1...

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

The Gulf War (2 August 1990 – 28 February 1991), codenamed Operation Desert Shield (2 August 1990 – ...

Hunter Doherty "Patch" Adams is an American physician, comedian, social activist, clown, and author....

Kim Jong-un (born 8 January 1982) is a North Korean politician. He has been Supreme Leader of North ...

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

The 1792 Unzen earthquake and tsunami resulted from the volcanic activities of Mount Unzen (in the S...

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

Rosario Alberto Bufalino (born October 29, 1903) was an Italian-born American mobster who became the...

A wind turbine, or alternatively referred to as a wind energy converter, is a device that converts t...

Sir Magdi Habib Yacoub is an Egyptian-British cardiothoracic surgeon. He is Professor of Cardiothora...

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

Was a member of the British royal family. She was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales, and th...

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

HTC Corporation is a Taiwanese consumer electronics company headquartered in Xindian District, New T...

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

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

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

The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is a closed nuclear power plant near the abandoned city of Pripyat...

Juan Terry Trippe was an American commercial aviation pioneer, entrepreneur and the founder of Pan A...

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

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