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
Parisian laundress, Victorine Gorget (1843 – 1901) actively participated in the Paris Commune, during which she was considered a leader. The great Victorine Daughter of Eléonore Cochon and Edmet Gorget, Victorine Gorget was born on April 20, 1843 in Paris. The journalist Henri Rochefort will indic
What little data we have about Thucydides comes, for the most part, from a few passages in Thucydides own work the. The rest of the sources either have little credibility or are directly fantastic. The only certain testimony we have, around which his biography has been built, is that he was appointe
Peter I in the portrait of Paul Delaroche. Peter I the Great (1672-1725) - the Tsar of Russia in 1682-1725 of the Romanov dynasty. He was born on June 9, 1672 in Moscow. He was the son of Tsar Alexei I Romanov and Natalia Naryshkin. When he was four, his father died, and his half-brother Fyodor