Alexander's conquests led to the spread of Greek culture and influence over a vast area stretching from Greece to India. This period, known as the Hellenistic era, lasted for several centuries and saw the rise of new centres of Greek culture and learning, such as Alexandria in Egypt and Antioch in Syria. The spread of Greek culture also led to the development of new forms of art, literature, and philosophy.
In 2003 the Iraq War began after a carefully orchestrated disinformation campaign about Saddam Husseins alleged arsenal of weapons of mass destruction. During a dinner at the home of the then US vice president, 11 months before the invasion of Iraq, the conversation had focused on the need to to
The Womens March on Versailles, October 5, 1789 • ISTOCK “Woman is born free and remains equal to man in rights. Social distinctions can only be based on common utility. Article 1 of the famous Declaration of the Rights of Women and Citizens , written in 1791 by the no less famous Olympe de Goug
One of the most exciting and unknown stories that the Second World War left us was the one that starred a group of romantic explorers who in the thirties had founded the Club Zerzura and traveled the Libyan desert in search of the mythical oasis where the army of King Cambyses of Persia was lost.
Admiral Thierry dArgenlieu (in religion:Father Louis de la Trinité O.C.D.), born and died in Brest (August 7, 1889 - September 7, 1964), was a sailor, Carmelite religious priest and French resistance fighter. Childhood, training and early career From a bourgeois Picardy family established in Argenl