Beginning in the late 700s, Vikings from Scandinavia, called Danes and Swedes, began raiding the coasts and up the rivers of England and Europe.
Since they were from "the north," they were referred to as Norse...
Plato was a Greek philosopher who lived in the city-state of Athens.
In 380 B.C., Plato wrote The Republic, where he described in Books 8 and 9:
"States are as the...
"Doctor Livingstone, I presume," stated New York Herald reporter Henry Stanley on November 10, 1871, as he met David Livingstone on the banks of Africa's Lake Tanganyika.
Dr. Livingstone was the internationally renowned missionary...
Abortion became legal in all nine months of pregnancy on January 22, 1973, with the Supreme Court decisions Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton.
Norma McCorvey, who...
The Houthis, officially known as Ansar Allah, are a group based in Yemen, primarily of the Zaidi Shia Muslim minority. Their origins trace back to a religious movement in the 1990s, and they gained prominence in the early 2000s under the leadership of Hussein al-Houthi.
The importance of elections was declared by President Calvin Coolidge, April 19, 1926: "The whole system of American Government rests on the ballot box.”
