Rajinder Singh, a 51-year-old Indian national, admitted in court to smuggling more than 500 Indian migrants across the U.S.-Canada border over a four-year period....
High winds and treacherous tides along North America's coast blew the Pilgrims 500 miles off course, preventing them from joining Virginia's settlement at Jamestown, founded 14 years earlier.
Having...
Christopher Columbus (1451-May 20, 1506) was a Genoese explorer who
sailed to America. After Muslim Turks conquered Constantinople in 1453, land routes were cut off from Europe to India and China....
Columbus was looking for a SEA route to India and China because nearly 40 years earlier Muslim Turks conquered Constantinople in 1453 cutting off the...
"Society ... must repose on principles that do not change" -- wrote Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws, 1748, Book 24.
Montesquieu was a French political philosopher whose books...
Slavery did not start in 1619.
It began with kings. Wherever there was the first king on top there were slaves on the bottom.
From the beginning of recorded history, Kings fought battles. When kings were victorious, they considered...
Did you know BASKETBALL was invented by an instructor for the Young Men's Christian Association.
The game was invented by James Naismith, who was born in 1861 in Ontario,...
