Where was the Hudson's Bay Company first located? Where did Vasco da Gama sail from? From where did the Barbary pirates operate? Where was Indus Valley located? Where was the Gupta Empire located? Where did the westward expansion take place?
you’ll find the Jakarta History Museum and Indonesia's largest shopping mall, Orchid Garden Mall (Mall Taman Anggrek). There are colonial buildings dating back to the Dutch rule (Jakarta was known as Batavia during the European Colonial empire), and then there’s Chinatown (or Glodok), with...
Where did the Wampanoag live during winter? When did folk music began in Wales? When was embroidery invented? Where did Margery Kempe live? When was Kingdom of Nri established? Where is the Ethiopian Empire? Where was The Government Inspector first performed?
What did the Dutch West India Company send its colonists? Who controlled the East India company during the Age of Exploration? Who oversaw the Partition of India? Where was the first printing press located in India? In India, who established the Mogul Empire? Where did the Indian Mutiny bega...
French, like Italian, Portuguese, Romanian and Spanish, is a Romance language.Romance languagesare descended fromVulgar Latin, which was the everyday language of the Romans. It was spread far and wide by Roman colonists, but following the dissolution of the Western Roman Empire, many conquered ...
In the 1950s, Dutch astronomer Jan Oort suggested that some of the comets entering the solar system might come from the icy shell that is now named after his work,according to NASA. Oort and other astronomers noticed that two types of comets travel through the solar system, theEuropean Space...
Find out how you cansupport the productionof the Bowery Boys Podcast. Read the book Our first-ever Bowery Boys book,"Adventures in Old New York"is now out in bookstores! A time-traveling journey into a past that lives simultaneously besides the modern city....
I’ve never been all that interested in Ayn Rand either as a novelist or a thinker, though she’s existed out there in the periphery of my awareness of intellectual currents for almost as long as I knew what an intellectual was. I can remember way back in high school a girl I had a...
The British Museum is among 160 institutions worldwide to hold some of the10,000 items stolen from Benin, which was annexed by the British Empire into what is now southern Nigeria, after a violent invasion by an expeditionary force of 1,200 personnel. ...
But, if it was me, I’d try to stay on the west side of Manhattan, within 5 street blocks or 1 avenue of a subway station (preferably with more than 1 train line). The best places to stay in New York City are just enough out of the main action to get a feel for the city bu...