After Columbus discovered the New World, Spain grew in power to surpass Portugal as the largest global empire, giving rise the saying, the sun never set on the Spanish...
In 220 AD, the Later Eastern Han Dynasty extended sections of the Great Wall of China along the Mongolian border.This made it harder for the Huns to attack into China, so they turned...
After the French and Indian war, King George the Third to decided to keep troops in the American colonies in case of future attacks by the French or their Indian allies.
To fund...
Ancient peoples, for millennia, had used calendars based on the moon, whose lunar cycles incrementally shifted through the seasons. These shifting seasons served as...
There have been 46 U.S. Presidents. The tallest was Abraham Lincoln at 6’4” and shortest was James Madison at 5’4”.
The heaviest President was William...
From 1714 to 1718, James Oglethorpe was a military aide under the command of Prince Eugene of Savoy fighting to drive the Muslim Turks out of Belgrade, Serbia.
After the battle, at...
Christianity is the largest religion in the world, in addition to being the most persecuted.
According to Pew Research Center, 2015, approximately a third of the world's population is Christian.
Christmas Day could be...
This recent letter from Pope Francis seems to pivot from a Vatican decree in March 2021, which explicitly stated that priests couldn't bless same-sex unions because God "cannot bless sin."
