The city fell to the Arabs in AD 641, and a new capital of Egypt, Fustat, was founded on the Nile. After Alexandria's status as the country's capital ended, it fell into a long decline, which by the late Ottoman period, had seen it reduced to little more than a small fishing vill...
Over 100 years ago, the future leaders of the Communist Party of China (CPC), including Chen Duxiu, founded the first communist organization in Shanghai. At that time, many young people went to the office of La Jeunesse(《新青年》)magazine -the center of the New Culture Movement- to look...
In 1913, Wells, one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, co-founded the Alpha Suffrage Club, Chicago’s first African American suffrage organization. The club was notable for its focus on educating Black women about civics and its advocacy for the ...
Who founded the Habsburg Dynasty? Who invented democracy in ancient Greece? Who established the Russian Empire? Who created oligarchy? Who rewrote the legal code of Rome? Who burned Rome? Who were the majesties in the early Roman Republic?
Library of Congress (United States. Washington, D. C.) Founded in 1800 with the private collection of Thomas Jefferson, the Library of Congress is in effect the USA's National Library. It receives two copies of everything published in the United States. The Library of C...
Who founded the National Front? Who pushed for the creation of the assembly in Rome? Who invented the assembly line? Who formed the African National Congress? Who founded the National Women's Party? Who organized the Congressional Union?
When the United States was founded, who could vote? Who supported the 19th Amendment? Who won the popular vote in the presidential election of 1828? Who voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1957? Who won the 1920 US presidential election?
Reichert studied filmmaking at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, and in, 1971, co-founded the documentary distribution company New Day Films with collaborator Jim Klein. Her first documentary, 1971's Growing Up Female, was later inducted into the Library of Congress' National Film Registry...
Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) was one of the most famous female suffragists in the country. Along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, she founded the American Equal Rights Association and, later, the American Woman Suffrage Association. She also fought on behalf anti-slavery groups. She's already got...
operates nearly 1,000 stores across the U.S.—not bad for a company whose founder’s middle name was “Cash.” James Cash Penney was born in 1875 and founded the department store chain in 1902. In recent years, the corporation has struggled with the rise of Amazon, sudden dismissal of ...