- Around the 16th to 18th centuries
Enlightenment
- Around the late 17th and 18th centuries
Henry William Paget (May 17, 1768 – April 29, 1854), 2nd Earl of Uxbridge, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, more generally known as Lord Uxbridge, was a British officer who served as Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Cavalry at the Battle of Waterloo on June 18, 1815. One of the strangest objects in the co
The history of Assyria is divided into three periods. The third of these, the so-called Neo-Assyrian, was the most glorious, bloody, but also destructive. The period in question begins in 745 BC. and ends in 609 BC. with the definitive dissolution of the Assyrian state After the death of King Sha
If in the Iberian Peninsula the British controlled the Rock of Gibraltar, since the 18th century during the War of Spanish Succession, at the beginning of World War II they controlled Eastern Gibraltar, Singapore , in Southeast Asia. On December 8, 1941, the Japanese began the Malay Campaign , at t
Orpheus holding a harp plays before the gods of the Underworld, Hades and Persephone. By Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568-1625). Johnny Van Haeften Gallery, London Orphism and Pythagoreanism share a set of beliefs whose cornerstone is the existence of an immortal soul subject to the long and terribl