Topic: Europe
MOSCOW (Reuters Life!) - They wrote letters to each other, were both assassinated in public, and led separate campaigns to free large swathes of their countrymen.Czar Alexander II and President Abraham Lincoln now share the spotlight in a new exhibit, which Russia ...
There is much talk about immigrants coming into America these days, principally illegal immigrants who bring drugs and human trafficking inside our boundaries. Many immigrants came to America from Ireland bringing with them knowledge and literature and skills and, certainly not the ...
Great Britain remained essentially neutral during the US Civil War largely because of the efforts on one Union diplomat: Adams was also instrumental in rallying British public opinion to the side of the Union slavery cause. At the end of the war, ...
On February 14, 1912 Arizona became the 48th state in the Union and fulfilled " In 1861 at Mesilla and at Tucson the Territory declared itself as the Confederate Territory of Arizona and effectively join the Confederacy. Two famous Indian Chiefs Cochise ...
Georgia, the last of the thirteen British Colonies, was founded in 1733 under the leadership of General James Edward Oglethorpe. On June 9, 1732 a Royal Charter was signed by King George II naming Oglethorpe and a group of twenty-one fellow philanthropists ...
The assignment was to create a new character for the book "The City of Light" which was about 19th century Buffalo around the time of the Civil War, and the invention of electricity hence City of Light. My character was an Irish ...
Appointed ambassador to Great Britain by President Abraham Lincoln , Charles Francis Adams was an important historical figure during the American Civil War. The fourth child of the Adams couple, Henry Adams would become secretary to his father in 1860 but would ...
Seventy-one years may have passed but the memories of what befell so many people during and immediately after the Civil War in Spain have not yet faded. The Civil War was ignored by the establishment to the extent that this part of ...
From 1649 to 1660 Britain was a Commonwealth, not a Monarchy. In the absence of an effective Parliament, the Army leader, Oliver Cromwell, became Lord Protector of Britain in 1653. With Sir Thomas Fairfax, he had led them to victory in a ...
We don't often see articles in the news about dolls, but this past week that's exactly what happened. The dolls were probably used to smuggle medicines, such as quinine and morphine, for the Confederate soldiers. At that time, the doll making industry ...
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