Islamic Sufism consists of a set of mystical practices, of an initiatory character, developed by Islamic sages. By Me. Cláudio FernandesIn the western world, especially from the turn of the 20th century to the 21st century, a somewhat biased, not to say negative, view of the Islamic religion was bu
At the end of the 19th century, the intelligent baboon Jack was working on the railroad. He set up the tracks, made the travelers happy and helped the man - the disabled James. The beginning of the 1880s. A lively market in Uitenhage, a city in the south of todays South Africa. James Edwin Wide,
In 1633, the Moscow army clashed with Polish knights near Smolensk. When the hussars caught up with their opponent in the open field, they proved their advantage again. A year after the Battle of Krušyn, and 97 years after the Lithuanians lost Smolensk, the city again found itself within the borde
Symbol of the first English industrial revolution , Coalbrookdale, by night (1801) was painted by the French painter Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg (1740-1812). The artists most famous and most reproduced painting, this oil on canvas is not very representative of his work. The theme of this painti