Colin Fluxman

“What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in ...

The Boer War was the defining conflict of South African history and one of the most impo...

Africa may have given rise to the first human beings, and Egypt probably gave rise to the...

“Legislators, therefore, ought not to trust the future government of a state entire...

Africa may have given rise to the first human beings, and Egypt probably gave rise to the...

The famous conqueror from the European continent came ashore with thousands of men, read...

Naturally, the arrival in 1492 of Christopher Columbus on the leeward islands of the Baha...

“As in the Arsenal of the Venetians Boils in winter the tenacious pitch To smear t...

The mystical floating city of Venice has inspired awe for generations, and it continues ...

“Therefore, faithful Christian, seek the truth, listen to the truth, learn the trut...

On New Year’s Day 1993, Czechoslovakia broke into two separate countries, the Czech...

If Wycliffe was the “Morning Star of the Reformation,” Hus was the Guiding S...

The Order of Santiago appeared shortly after the First Crusade and rose to prominence in...

In the 18th century, Italy was still divided into smaller states, but differently than du...

“Glorious servant of God, St. Denis, with intense love did you devote yourself to ...

In 1494, there were five sovereign regional powers in Italy: Milan, Venice, Florence, th...

Before World War II, few in the West had ever heard of Abyssinia, and fewer still could p...

“The Christian life, then, is a battle, so sharp and full of danger that effort ca...

In the Second World War, Japanese forces ranged over an immense portion of the globe, fro...

Leonid Brezhnev became First Secretary of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union in lat...

In the wake of taking Constantinople, the Ottoman Empire would spend the next few centuri...

For the most part, the Uighurs are based in East Turkestan, more commonly referred to as ...

He appears once in the New Testament, mentioned only in passing in the Acts of the Apost...

The history of Naples is long and tortured, or at least for centuries that was how its h...

Wedged in the North Caucasus mountain range and bordering the Caspian Sea, Dagestan is a...

Modern perceptions of ancient Greece are almost always based on Athens and Sparta, which...

Among those who championed free markets, perhaps no economist has written so forcefully ...

Shortly after Emperor Hadrian came to power in the early 2nd century CE, he decided to s...

As Earth entered the Cambrian Period, there was a relatively sudden increase in life for...

The three modern Baltic states - Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia - may occupy small tracts...

Franz Kafka was among the most unique authors in the early 20th century, and as a Jewish ...

A history of Burgundy could more accurately be described as the "history of the Burgundi...

While the Moors have always been associated with Spain due to their lengthy stay on the ...

Shortly after Emperor Hadrian came to power in the early 2nd century CE, he decided to s...

The creative impetus of organized society in the Fertile Crescent initially came from so...

Although he is unquestionably one of the most studied leaders of the 19th century, Simon...

Today, “The Anarchy” is used to describe the period in English history from ...

In 1515, a Portuguese missionary explorer by the name of Father Francisco Alvares entere...

Among the most significant water displacement phenomena in the Western world was Doggerl...

On April 24, 1990, the Space Shuttle Discovery lifted off from Kennedy Space Center on t...

When people think about unidentified flying objects (UFOs), they tend to think of flying...

Finland is a Nordic country today bordering Sweden, Norway and Russia. Its population of...

Although the school of philosophy started by Socrates and championed by Plato and Aristo...

Naturally, as technological advances and the creation of flying aircraft became realitie...

 On the morning of June 22, 1948, the HMT Empire Windrush, a repurposed German troo...

The Greek Dark Ages, sometimes referred to as the Homeric Age or the Geometric Period, s...

Of all the steppe peoples in the medieval period, perhaps none were more important to Eu...

While D-Day is one of the most famous events of the war, it is widely overlooked that ab...

some historians have aligned the term Slav as deriving from descriptions of slaves: &ldq...

The relationship between Scotland and England has always been rocky. For most of their h...