Dante Alighieri also known as "the Supreme Poet" (il Sommo Poeta), was a politican, a pharmacist and a poet. His most famous work is La Divina Commedia "the Inferno", written between 1308 and 1321 this ...
What would you like to see digitally reconstructed?
Would you like to see the pyramids of Egypt, the inventions of Da Vinci, the squalid streets of Victorian London, or even the frontier towns of the ...
The burning of the Reichstag on the 27th February 1933, was a fundamental milestone for the consolidation of the Hitler regime. The debate continues to rage as to the responsibility of the fire, however, ...
... act of committing espionage.[2]
The FBI seemingly caught a break in 1945. Elizabeth Bentley, a student working on her Master’s degree in Italian, had furnished information to the FBI about American espionage ...
Imagine the scene as the protestors trudged down the street, the ir faces set in grim determination. Some carried rocks or bricks to throw and the ir leader stepped out before the m, her sharpened weapon ...
Written by John Tarttelin “My motto has always been: A career open to all talents, without distinction of birth…Be successful!”
(Napoleon)
Jean-Roch Coignet was born at Druyes-les-Belles-Fontaines ...
Part One: The essay question.
The first and most important part to writing a good history essay is to understand the question. Many students fail to reach the ir grade because the y fail to grasp the ...
Murder is horrible – of that the re is no doubt. Yet, with the passage of time, horror often turns to morbid fascination, particularly with unsolved cases such as ‘The Ripper’ crimes; perhaps more fascinating ...
Though we think of Dolley Madison today as eithe r the name of a pastry company or as a First Lady who used snuff, to her contemporaries she was an honored, respected and beloved figure. Her service as ...
To say that the re were significant challenges facing Abraham Lincoln as he assumed the Presidency of the United States would be an understatement. Between the time that he was elected in November, 1860, ...
In 1861, Americans went to war with each othe r to determine if the ir young republic could endure as a unified nation or if it should be divided between the North and the South. The question of whethe r ...
For many years now, speculation has been rife about who exactly was ‘Jack the Ripper’. Suspects range from John Pizer, a Jewish shoemaker to Sir William Gull, the Royal Physician. Even Queen Victoria’s ...
Enkele gedachten bij Virginia Woolf: A Room of One’s Own
Leesproces
In wat volgt, geef ik weer wat de boodschap, de ideeën en de vorm van ‘A Room of One’s Own’ bij het lezen bij me hebben opgeroepen. ...
De Conventie van Genève: vluchtelingen vs. burgers, vrouw vs. man
Ik wil in deze paper eerst in het kort een paar bedenkingen formuleren over de UNO en de Conventie zelf. Vervolgens ga ik na wat het ...
Why was Thomas Wentworth, the Earl of Strafford, executed in May 1641?
Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, was impeached for the charge of “endeavouring to subvert the fundamental laws and government...and ...
Elizabeth I’s iconography has gone down in history as a propaganda machine assigned to maintain the image of an aging queen. The later portraits of, ‘Gloriana’ Queen Elizabeth I, serve as pictorial analogues ...
In 1947 David Dallin and Boris Nicolaevsky published the ir book Forced Labor in Soviet Russia. In this book the y tell the horrific story of how 12,000 gulag prisoners perished on the SS Dzhurma after it ...
Why did the Turks besiege Vienna in 1683?
In 1683, the Turks once again attacked and besieged Vienna. This revival of Turkish aggression, which had previously spanned the centuries, sent Christian ...
The German High Command: what influence did the y have on the declaration of war in 1914?
The origin of the First World War is a highly controversial topic. Historians have been debating and assessing ...
How did eighteenth century feminists respond to Rousseau’s views on education for women?
In 1762 Rousseau published his views on education in the controversial book: Emile ou l’Education. By early ...
