Charles I was tried and convicted of treason by a specially convened court of justice. He was executed by beheading on a scaffold in front of the Banqueting House in Whitehall, London. His execution marked the end of the English Civil War and the establishment of a republican government known as the Commonwealth of England.
It was supposed to be an expedition that would confirm British domination on the oceans. The Arctic expedition of the ships Erebus and Terror was followed with bated breath. It turned out, however, that there will be no happy ending. Two ships with over a hundred sailors were lost in the Arctic ice.
Raja Ravi Varma was an Indian painter best known for combining Hindu mythological elements and European realistic historicist painting style. Ravi varma stood out as one of the first Indian artists to work with oil painting and mastered the technique of lithographic printing. Varma produced several
He had power and influence. She was the most beautiful woman on the continent. There was also the third one who had a clever plan. As the story accelerates, the most important decisions can be made in the imperial alcove! In 1854, Count Aleksander Walewski, son of Napoleons Polish mistress, was
Great Britain took an active part in the armed race that ended with the creation of the atomic bomb. The dispute continues to this day - was the participation of scientists from the Isles crucial to the cause? Has Churchill missed an opportunity to become nuclear power faster? When it became cle