Homo erectus appeared about 1.8 million years ago in Africa, then moved to Asia and Europe. He succeeds Homo habilis who, as his name suggests, is skilled and masters the tools. The hominid race evolves little by little. The characteristic of Homo erectus is to be bipedal and above all to stand upri
The air war over North Vietnam was a result of the policy of retaliation that the American political leadership decided to implement. Rightly so, the Americans calculated that aerial bombardment would bring the North to its knees, as they said at the time, and indeed without a great cost in blood, s
First page of the original manuscript of the Edict of Nantes, kept at the National Archives (Paris) • WIKIMEDIACOMMONS The Edict of Nantes, signed by Henri IV in 1598, granted Protestants a regime of limited tolerance. This was not the first such edict. In 1563, at the end of a year of civil war
Andersonville National Historic Site , Confederate military prison for captured Union soldiers during the American Civil War, located in Andersonville, southwest-central Georgia, U.S. It was established as a national historic site in 1970 to honor all U.S. prisoners of war. The site preserves the ca