It would seem that science has reached such a level of development that it can give an answer to any question, and everything that has tormented the minds of...

The outstanding painter Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky entered the history of world art as a romantic marine painter, a genius of classical landscape, whose...

“Monarchy is a calm ocean, and democracy is a stormy sea...” This is how the 18th century French writer Joseph Sanyal-Dubé imagined the monarchical form of g...

The destinies of cities, like people, develop differently. Their history knows ups and downs, the cruelty of destruction and the joy of rebirth, the bitterne...

This book is dedicated to the history of the exact sciences. It contains information about one hundred famous mathematicians, physicists, and astronomers. Al...

The life and work of outstanding representatives of the business world prove that they are extraordinary individuals and are endowed with great organizationa...

Military experts admit that in the history of military art, neither before nor after the grandiose and bloody Napoleonic era, there was such a brilliant gala...

The history of mankind is, to a certain extent, the history of wars. And, apparently, this is why commanders on the social ladder always occupied one of the ...

The history of the French colonial empire goes back almost six centuries. Its origins began under King Francis I (1494–1547), and its collapse ended during t...