The front page of the Petit Journal of July 12, 1914 reconstructs the assassination of the Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary, François-Ferdinand of Austria, in Sarajevo, which will precipitate the First World War • WIKIMEDIA COMMONS It all started on June 28, 1914 in Sarajevo with the assassinatio
Hausa , a group of neighboring African states occasionally linked by loose alliances from the mid-14th century. Their territory was above the confluence of the Niger and Benue rivers (todays north) Nigeria ) between the Songhai Empire to the west and that of Kanem-Bornu or Bornu to th
French Congo , French Congo Français , French possessions in Equatorial Africa from 1897 to 1910, when the colonies Gabon , Central Congo (Moyen-Congo) and Ubangi-Shari-Chad were combined under this name Afrique Équatoriale Française (AEF). Thereafter the term Middle Congo was used t
On the Mediterranean coast of France, almost on the border with Italy, there is a town sadly famous for being the place where Grace Kelly, Princess of Monaco, died in a traffic accident in 1982. It is called La Turbie, a term that derives from Latin tropea And what does trophy mean? . But the place