(Versailles, 1805 - La Chênaie, Indre, 1894.) Diplomat. He entered the Carrière in 1825 and was a member of the Consulate General in Lisbon. Employed in the offices of the commercial department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1827, he was appointed, on October 19, 1828, student-consul then, sh
After the capture of the Nasrid capital on January 2, 1492, Boabdil, the deposed sultan, came to hand over the keys of Granada to the Catholic Kings, Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile. The episode, which marks the end of the Reconquista, is represented here by Francisco Pradilla. 1882. Pal
Ancient Japan made significant contributions to world culture, including the Shinto religion and its engineering, unmistakable artefacts such as haniwa dolls, the most established ceramic vessels on the planet, the largest wooden structures anywhere in their development, and a variety of works of ar
Anatoly Stepanovich Dyatlov was the key man behind the catastrophic nuclear accident in Chernobyl, Ukraine in 1986. He was born in 1931 in Siberia to an extremely poor family. He studied electrical engineering in Norilsk in the Arctic Ocean and then at the Moscow Institute of Engineering and Physics