After World War II, the United States of America became the most powerful nation on the planet, and therefore the decisions of those who led this country had...

When, during the Second World War, France, weakened by occupation, needed a strong and charismatic leader who could give people hope for deliverance from fas...

At the beginning of the 20th century, cinema became “the most important of the arts.” The center of the world film industry after the First World War moved t...

The first half of the 20th century, along with turbulent political and social phenomena, was marked by a surge of creative activity - the birth of new genres...

At the turn of the 20th century, the Viennese psychiatrist Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) managed to find an approach that made it possible to shed light on the v...

Saladin (Salah ad-din) (1138-1193), who, due to a series of accidents, rose to the heights of power, is perhaps the most famous commander of the Middle Ages ...

Today, few people can doubt the status of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881) as one of the greatest geniuses of Russian and world literature. However...

Most people are wary and even disgusted with insects. French explorer Jean Henri Fabre (1823-1915) was not afraid of them, but loved them. The scientist devo...

In the second half of the 19th - first half of the 20th centuries, several masterpieces of children's literature appeared in England, which not only influenc...

Carthage in the 3rd century BC, along with Rome, was the most powerful state in the Western Mediterranean. It is not surprising that these powers began a lon...

Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964) is in many respects a very significant figure in American recent history. A successful general who went through all stages of h...

The use of electricity plays a key role in the functioning of modern society. Although we know that our ancestors managed quite well without sockets and wire...