The Kellogg-Briand Pact was an agreement between the US and France to renounce war and seek settlement...
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Shankar was a world-famous Indian sitarist and composer who popularized classical Indian music in the West. After...
Born Albino Luciani, Pope John Paul I was the first pope to choose a double name, a...
42nd Street tells the story of an up-and-coming chorus girl from Allentown, Pennsylvania, pursuing a Broadway career...
Located on the Colorado River between Nevada and Arizona, the Hoover Dam is 726 feet (221 m)...
Before they became a mass-produced snack food, potato chips were chef-cooked restaurant fare. It is believed that...
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our...
Wallace was a Scottish knight who, during the Wars of Scottish Independence, led a resistance movement against...
Women began to dance in ballets in 1681, but dancing en pointe—on the tips of the toes—was...
Edvard Munch completed four versions of his most famous work, The Scream, an expressionist depiction of modern...
A Dominican prior, Torquemada grew close to Ferdinand II and Isabella I of the newly created kingdom...
Lake Nyos is a deep lake located in the crater of an inactive volcano in Cameroon. A...
Schumann, the wife of composer Robert Schumann, was a renowned pianist of her time. A child prodigy,...
On August 7, 1998, the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed, killing more than 200...
He used statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts; for support rather than illumination. Read More Tags...
Poison ivy is a woody vine known for its ability to produce urushiol, a skin irritant that...
After becoming the major power on the Indian subcontinent in the late 18th century, the British Empire...
The Sistine Chapel is located in the Palace of the Vatican, the official residence of the Pope...