>The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, the heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, by a Serbian nationalist on June 28, 1914, directly led to the outbreak of World War 1. The assassination sparked a chain of events that rapidly escalated into a full-scale conflict involving most of Europe and eventually the world.
Entry taken from the book The Plantagenets The recent terrorist attack in London has led various media to refer to it as an attack on the cradle of parliamentary democracy, as well as to talk much about the birth of such a democracy in the British Isles. This has made me decide to recover the sect
Torture, concentration camps, executions, burning alive - that was the price of humanity in German-occupied Poland. How many Poles were murdered for helping Jewish neighbors? German reports from occupied Poland quickly began to emphasize that anti-Semitic propaganda was not a sufficient means of
The battle of Kilkis - Lakhana was the catalytic conflict of the Second Balkan War. The great Greek victory sealed the freedom of Eastern Macedonia. Honoring the many brave Greek fighters who fell in that battle, the Directorate of Army History of the GES released an extremely informative video with
On January 28, 1896 Walter Arnold of East Peckham (in the county of Kent) became the first driver of a car who was penalized for speeding. He was driving about 8 miles per hour (almost 13 km / h) when the maximum speed allowed in the city was 2 miles (just over 3 km / h). The penalty imposed on him