… to power” Just prior to Vladimir Lenin’s death in 1924, a ‘power struggle’ for authority over communist Russia came between the leaders of the Bolshevik regime, because there was no logical successor to Lenin. The members of the ‘Politburo’,…

… one question that always comes back again : 'How could this go wrong ?.' Well, over the years, all the facts have sufficiently been studied, but even so there's still an amount of doubt that lingers on. There was the poor strategical planning of course.…

… is a name given by historians to an intellectual movement that was predominant in the Western world during the 18th century. Strongly influenced by the rise of modern science and by the aftermath of the long religious conflict that followed the Reformati…

… in the history of western science. The division of time into regular, predictable units is fundamental to the operation of society. Even in ancient times, humanity recognized the necessity of an orderly system of chronology. Hesiod, writing in the…

… of the family structure, was created as a transition from the disastrous Middle Ages to the age of “rebirth,” the Renaissance. These areas of advancements became the major differences of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The Renaissance created…

… Tlacatl (man),"people of the heron", in the Nahuatl, or Mexican, language of Mexico, a surname applied to the tribe of the Mexica, or Chichimeca Mexitin (whence Mexico and Mexicans), a ramification of the Nahuatl linguistic stock which occupied aborig…

… extraordinary story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his yearning for a beautiful English nurse. Hemingway’s writing makes one feel alive with his rich detail Henry convinces himself he "did not love Catherine Barkley nor had…

… 13th of Quintilis, which is now July in 100 BCE to Gaius Caesar, which became part of his full name, Gaius Julius Caesar. When Caesar was born, the city of Rome was flourishing, becoming a rich culture, and an advanced government of democracy governed…

… Thompson During the late sixteenth century and into the seventeenth century, European nations rapidly colonized the newly discovered Americas. England chartered groups to two main regions of the New World: the Chesapeake and the New England…

… Athena. It is on the Acropolis in the Athens. The Parthenon is a masterpiece of beautiful architecture. It is going to be built from 447 BC to approximately 432 BC. The leader who is in control of construction is Pericles. I was able to get a word…