Coeur, or Basilica of the Sacred Heart, which Émile Zola called a "stone host placed on the open wound of the city," celebrates the 150th anniversary of the laying of its first stone. To celebrate her ...

Object Details author Snyder, Louis L (Louis Leo) 1907-1993 Contents From the Early Germans to the Reformation -- The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, A.D. 9 -- The Early Germans -- The Battle of ...

Italian artist Giuseppe De Nettis (1846-1884) was born into a wealthy family in Barletta, Italy. He trained for a short time ...

Bismarck’s skillful diplomacy after the war kept the general peace, but the great Prussian statesman left the scene in 1890, forced out of office by Kaiser Wilhelm II, whose policies combined ...

He sought to give an impression of spontaneity in his painting, making him a pioneer of what is now called Impressionism. At ...

Living in today’s age of ambitious robotic exploration of Mars, with an eventual human mission to the red planet likely to happen one day, it is hard to imagine a time when Mars was a mysterious ...

The most sweeping overhaul of UK forces in 150 years treats troop numbers as a problem of the past, betting instead on drones, cyber power and digital targeting.

Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron attend the traditional Bastille day military parade on the Champs-Elysees in 2017. Photo by Getty Images When it comes to spectacles, Trump believed no one does it ...

This is an English translation of a Dutch text about the 'Manifesto des Seize' of 1916 by Homme Wedman. First published in Dutch in 1995 in the 'Tweede Jaarboek Anarchisme / De AS 112' under the title ...