Category: History
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Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill, born on November 30, 1874, in Woodstock and died on January 24, 1965, in London, is a British statesman and writer. A member of the Conservative Party despite an interlude with the Liberal Party, he was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1940 to July 1945 then from October 1951 to…
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Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great (Ancient Greek: Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Μέγας / Aléxandros ho Mégas or Μέγας Ἀλέξανδρος / Megas Aléxandros) or Alexander III (Ἀλέξανδρος Γ’ / Alexandros III), born on July 21, 356 BC in Pella and died on June 11, 323 BC in Babylon, is a king of Macedonia and one of the most famous characters…
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Cleopatra
Cleopatra VII Thea Filopátor — Ancient Greek: Κλεοπᾰ́τρᾱ Φιλοπάτωρ, Romanized: Kleopátrā Philopátōr — (69 BC – 10 or 12 August 30 BC), known as Cleopatra, was the last ruler of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Ancient Egypt, although nominally he was succeeded as pharaoh by his son Caesarion. She was also a diplomat, a naval commander,…
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Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879 – April 18, 1955) was a German theoretical physicist who developed the theory of general relativity, one of the pillars of modern physics alongside quantum mechanics. Although best known for its mass-energy equivalence formula, E = mc² — which was called “the world’s most famous equation” — was awarded the…
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Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was a German ideologue and statesman. Founder and central figure of Nazism, he took power in Germany in 1933 and established a totalitarian, imperialist, anti-Semitic, racist and xenophobic dictatorship known as the Third Reich. Führer of the German ReichAugust 2, 1934 – April 30, 1945 (10…
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Marie Curie
Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie, better known as Marie Curie or Madame Curie (7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934), was a Polish physicist and chemist. A pioneer in the field of radioactivity, she is the first and only person to receive two Nobel Prizes in different scientific specialties: Physics and Chemistry. She was also the first…
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Vietnam war
The Vietnam War (Vietnamese: Chiến tranh Việt Nam; more rarely Kháng chiến chống Mỹ “Vietnam War against the USA” or “American War“) was fought in and around Vietnam from about 1955 to 1975. The main warring parties were North Vietnam and the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam (NLF), also known as the…
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Soviet Union (USSR)
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) or simply soviet union, was a socialist state located in northern Eurasia that extended from the Baltic and Black Seas to the Pacific Ocean, and which existed between 1917/22 and 1991. A union of several subnational Soviet repu
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Chernobyl disaster
The Chernobyl disaster (Ukrainian: Чорнобильська катастрофа, Tchornobylska katastrofa – Chernobyl Disaster; also known as Chernobyl accident) was a catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred between April 25 and 26, 1986 at nuclear reactor no. 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near the town of Pripiat in northern Soviet Ukraine, near the border with Soviet Belarus.…
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The First World War (WWI)
The First World War was fought from 1914 to 1918 in Europe, the Near East, Africa, East Asia and the oceans. About 17 million people lost their lives as a result of it. It began on July 28, 1914, with the declaration of war by Austria-Hungary on Serbia, which had been preceded by the assassination…