Historical

St Charles Borromeo
4th November is the official saint’s day for Charles Borromeo, a noted reformer of the Catholic Church in the late 16th century.
By John Welford5 years ago in FYI
Real Damage Island
It was 1916, and, however, the U.S. had at this point to enter World War 1. The nation's assembling haul made it a consistent provider of weapons to the English and French. Most of these were sent from more noteworthy New York City – in reality, right across the stream in Jersey City, New Jersey. The embarkation point was an artificial island – Black Tom Island, supposedly named for a nearby darker looking angler (woke a lot, the 1910s?) – initially worked around an extreme to-spot rock that made route hazardous.
By Anshgptx5 years ago in FYI
The Plague (Black Death) 1346.
As in the entirety of Britain's set of experiences of sicknesses, parts of the Dark Demise and the pestilence were featured before, particularly the incredible flare-up of the twentieth century, by Oxford antiquarian Paul Slack.
By A sapkota5 years ago in FYI
Charles Darwin Life biography
Darwin, however, was initially hesitant to share his views and opinions on evolution. After years of scientific research, Darwin presented his theory of evolution in a textbook read at the 1858 Linnean Society conference.
By Laxmi Thapa5 years ago in FYI
Girl with a Pearl Earring
From a distance, large pieces of jewelry appear to be made with great detail. Fragments of fabric used as temporary turbans are made of bright yellow material with a blue border, a color that looks similar to the one seen painted on lives, paintings, and love letters.
By Laxmi Thapa5 years ago in FYI
Ancient Lore of Talismans
The word "talisman" comes from the Greek telesma, meaning "completion, religious rite," from the verb teleo, meaning "I complete, perform a rite. [2] Centuries of magical faith and experience support the belief that these legendary luck - bringers can attract good luck or avert misfortune. [0]
By JC Soulwood5 years ago in FYI
lost diary of Anne Frank
The social network supports its viewers by highlighting how sites like Facebook, Myspace, and others have created a false public sense of the world based on the truth without a sense of humanity. According to Ben Mezrich's book (Accidental Billionaire), Social Network has proven to be the best seller of American audiences because it was marketed as a "Facebook movie" denied by Zuckerberg himself, but the film is difficult to describe the trailer due to its dark tone and cinematography (courtesy of DP The greatest force of all films, which seems to be amazing and marked by truth, lies in its cruel laughter: not really with Facebook, but with social media and loneliness, and the appearance of the site begins separately and ends with the end of a friendship.
By Jack Kim5 years ago in FYI
The Story of Conjoined Twins Chang & Eng
Chang and Eng Bunker were sons born to Nok and Ti-eye in Meklong, Siam (now Thailand) in 1811. Their father was born in China and worked as a fisherman, while their mother raised them and their seven other siblings. They were just normal boys who played with their brothers and sisters along the riverbank, swam, and steered their father’s boat; except that they were stuck together. They were what we know now as conjoined twins.
By Kassondra O'Hara5 years ago in FYI
Words That Meant Something Different Before the Internet
Today, technology is an integral part of everybody's daily activities. There are hundreds of concepts, terms, and terminologies that mean something entirely different now than they did before the internet. During this age of computers, smartphones, and other modern-day forms of communication, one must know what those terms mean now as well as what they used to mean.
By Margaret Minnicks5 years ago in FYI
Jim Crow in the USSR
We are all colonized.— marginalia in a library copy of Dominance Without Hegemony by Ranajit Guha, Indian historian The reader of Langston Hughes’s writings on the Soviet experiment is bound to be confused. In the 1930s, during the peak of Stalinist repression, Hughes produced volumes praising the Soviet Union, particularly the Central Asian republics of Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan where, as he writes in the second volume of his autobiography, I Wonder as I Wander (1956), “the majority of the [Soviet Union’s] colored citizens lived” (123).
By Rebecca Ruth Gould5 years ago in FYI
The Doryphoros
The Doryphoros (Spear Bearer) (Fig.1) is a sculpture designed by the Greek Polykleitos’s, an artist originally from Argos or Sicyon, who worked in bronze in the classical style around 450-440 BCE. Although it bears elements of Greek aesthetics it is a Roman copy of a bronze sculpture that has been melted down and lost. This complicates the nature of the statue and where it relates to art and art history, whether it can be considered a Greek statue if it is a Roman copy and interpretation. To fully understand and analyze the sculpture, viewers must consider the differences between the original piece and the copy, the accuracy of the copies and the Roman influence on them, and comparisons between the Doryphoros and other sculptures that are copies.
By Scarlett Callohan5 years ago in FYI
The trials and death of Richard Hunne
Richard Hunne was a man who became the central character of a 16th century “cause celebre”, and a figure of interest in the story of the English Reformation during the reign of Henry VIII.
By John Welford5 years ago in FYI