Annie Cohen Kopchovsky, also known as Annie Londonderry (1870–1947), was the first woman to circumnavigate the globe by bicycle. The feat took him fifteen months. Young wife and mother Daughter of Beatrice and Levi Cohen, Annie Cohen was born in 1870, probably in Riga, Latvia, where her family or
Endurance walker and cycling pioneer, Louise Armaindo (1861-1900) became known as the “world cycling champion”. Strong woman Louise Armaindo was born in 1861 in a small village near Montreal (Canada) under the name of Louise or Louisa Brisebois or Brisbois. Her mother performs in a circus as a st
In -1792, Hammurabi inherited Babylon by his father Sin-Muballit, which at the time was only a medium-sized town. Mesopotamia is indeed a territory torn apart by internal wars between the various city-states. But the sixth king of Babylon, a fine political strategist, succeeded in concluding allianc
Indian kings queued up to sign one by one to join the Union of India. Some of the princely states accepted their merger but with great bitterness. A king of central India, while signing the Instrument of Accession, stumbled and died of a heart attack. After signing, the Maharaja of Baroda cried like