Spain had claimed Florida since Juan Ponce de León's exploration in 1512, reputedly looking for the Fountain of Youth.
Ponce de León named it La Florida as he explored it during the season of Pascua...
Isabella I (April 22, 1451-November 26, 1504) was the Queen of Castile, who in 1481 married Ferdinand II, King of Aragon, thereby unifying Christian Spain.
They...
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....
Armenia's last Arsacid king was deposed in 428 AD, ending an independent Armenia until the rise of Bagratid Armenia in the 9th century.
Armenia's thousands of years of history included independence, interspersed with occupations...
One of the oldest civilizations is that of the Armenians.
According to ancient tradition, Noah's Ark rested on Mount Ararat in the Armenian Mountain Range.
Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat is featured on Armenia's National Coat...
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...
"Old Man Eloquent" John Quincy Adams suffered a stroke at his desk in the House chamber.
He had just given an impassioned speech against the Democrat plan to expand...
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...
In 1655, British Admiral William Penn, the father of Pennsylvania's founder, captured Jamaica from the Spanish.
As Jamaica was too far from England be defended, inhabitants turned to privateers, freebooters, buccaneers and pirates...