The British East India Company, a trading company, took control of the administration of most of India in the mid 18th century, after the Mughal Empire had declined.
In the early 19th century, the company was abolished and the British government assumed direct control of the country.
India became an official British colony in 1858 and remained as such until its independence in 1947.
Whether you call it carnival, carnival or Alemannic carnival. I must confess to you right at the beginning:I hate all of it. The stupid costumes, the annoying carnival parade, the horrible music (and I say that as someone who is quite inclined to pop music) ... The fifth season is anathema to me and
Anglo-Saxon history books are full of stories about SS men and Nazi apparatchiks who buried various treasures in tunnels and caves in the last days of the war:gold, works of art, weapons ... But why should we get excited about what they did Teutons, if we had our own treasures? And the boys from the
As I say in the title, the best thing that could happen with the letter that George Bissell sent him to Edwin Drake It was… arriving late . For many years the lighting of homes depended on candles made of wax or animal fat (tallow). The wax ones were better but much more expensive. The tallow ones
We have already talked in this blog about Aníbal and of Scipio , but there was a meeting between the two, already exiled, in the court of King Antiochus that has me fly. After discussing the issues of the time (soccer, women, wine, wars...) the Roman general asked the Carthaginian: Who do you thin