Soviet historical maps not only reflect historical phenomena, events, and facts but also show their cause-and-effect connections. Speaking specifically of the preparation of Soviet geographic atlases, V. I. Lenin offered guidelines that have had a great effect on the general development of historical...
Vote up the most interesting facts about reali-life historical booby traps. Popular culture shows us booby traps a lot. Indiana Jones braves trap after perilous trap during his searches for treasure, while the Mummy movies unleash all kinds of problems for people looking for ric...
Also ranks #3onFacts About Old Hollywood Power Couples That Reveal What They Were Really Like 617votes Would he still be a sex symbol today? 12 Charlton Heston Photo: 20th Century Fox Wikimedia Commons Public Domain Charlton Heston, born as John Charles Carter on October 4, 1923, in Evansto...
Why She Wrote about Mexico: Katherine Anne Porter and the Literature of Experience (13.) Susan Rubin Suleiman calls the spectacular murder of Hitler and Goebbels and the rest of the Nazi high command an "antihistorical" gesture that "actually reinforce[s] our sense of the reality of the hist...
1848 - Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Mexico formally cedes California to the United States, and all residents are made U.S. citizens. 1849 - That other California Gold Rush. Settlers flood the state, creating great demand for beef from Los Angeles-area ranchos. ...
Located in the central northern part of New Mexico, the Santa Clara Pueblo is part of the Pueblo cultural and Tewa linguistic group that are mostly clustered around the Rio Grande. Santa Clara, along with most Pueblos, were colonized first by the Spanish in the 16th century. Despite brutal ...
Set in the 1700’s,Anne Bonnyis a real character, though much about her is legendary and not easily verifiable.Nuala O’Connorhas familiarised herself with facts and read the fictions and re-imagined a version of a deeply unconventional life for Anny Bonny, told in a lilting, of its era...
Historical notes the start of the experimental surgery in Mexico (1918 - 1936)RodríguezPaz Carlos AgustínVázquezOrtega Ramón
25 Interesting and Fun Facts About Greece The Best Places to Visit in Greece 5. Chichen Itza, Mexico Chichen Itza was the first historical place we ever visited. Located in the Yucátan Peninsula, this must-see archaeological site was named one of the new Seven Wonders of the World. This ...
Well, here we are again. With a book that I’m not totally convinced about, but we’re coming to the end of these books (amazingly!) so I had better get this one out of the way. The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow: The Diary of Sarah Nita, A Navajo Girl, New Mexico, 1864, Ann ...