The cruiser Aurora gained wide fame due to the blank shot fired from its gun on the night of October 25, 1917; it is believed that it served as the signal for the storming of the Winter Palace. The ship…
Russian poets write about autumn as if it had a voice, a gait and a character. It flies in through the window like a golden whirlwind, then stands in the doorway and silently waits until we admit to ourselves the…
The word “negligence” is used to describe carelessness, inattention, and sloppiness in the performance of work or other duties. However, the history of the word and its connection to the robe has deep roots that go back centuries. The word…
Merchant Danila Nikitich Shcherbakov did not think that his two-story chambers with shops on Pokrovskaya Street (now Bakuninskaya) would become famous. However, history decided otherwise… He bought a plot of land for construction during the Moscow plague. At that time,…
“The criterion is to teach in accordance with the needs of the time” (L.N. Tolstoy). Few people know that immediately after writing the famous epic novel “War and Peace”, Lev Nikolayevich enthusiastically took up “Azbuka”. In the novel, the history…
This 2,000-year-old mausoleum, believed to have been built for the local elite, was visible to anyone passing through the former Roman colony of Vienne, founded by Julius Caesar in 47 BC. Gallo-Roman MuseumArchaeologists excavate a mausoleum found near Lyon. Giulia…
Wikimedia Commons The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 began in West Virginia and Maryland and quickly spread across the country. By 1877, American railroad workers had long suffered from low wages and harsh working conditions. The announcement of new pay…
Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities Divers raise statues from Abu Qir Bay near Alexandria, Egypt. Archaeologists and divers exploring the waters off Alexandria in northern Egypt have recovered a trove of artefacts from a sunken city believed to be…
Donald McPherson was a United States Navy aviator in the Pacific Front in World War II, destroying five enemy Japanese aircraft. US Navy/National WWII MuseumDonald McPherson mastered the controls of a fighter jet during the war. After completing training at…
In 2018, archaeologists exploring cave systems in Vietnam discovered the well-preserved remains of an ancient human that may indicate the oldest violent death in history. Christopher M. Stimpson et al. Reconstruction of the skull of a man who died in…
On August 6 and 9, 1945, the United States dropped the first atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the first in history to use war. The attacks resulted in the complete destruction of the two Japanese cities and killed hundreds…
Archaeologists have found the jugs in an underground sanctuary discovered in the ruins of ancient Paestum, located in southern Italy. Luciana da Costa CarvalhoSome samples of honey found by archaeologists in bronze jars discovered in Paestum. Although archaeologists suspected it…