In May 1776 Bavarian university professor Adam Weishaupt founded the Illuminati, a secret society whose rituals and members were shrouded in mystery. Despite being outlawed by the Bavarian government in the late 1780s, the Illuminati’s cultural reach has continued to grow. The Illuminati is a name given to several groups,Continue Reading
Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel was a German inventor and mechanical engineer who is famous for having invented the diesel engine, which burns diesel fuel; both are named after him. The diesel engine, named after him is an internal combustion engine in which ignition of the fuel is caused by the elevatedContinue Reading
Elizabeth I (1533 – 1603) was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603. Sometimes referred to as the Virgin Queen, Elizabeth was the last of the five monarchs of the House of Tudor In government, Elizabeth was more moderate than her father and half-siblings had been. One of her mottoes was “videoContinue Reading
Magna Carta Libertatum (Medieval Latin for “Great Charter of Freedoms”), commonly called Magna Carta (also Magna Charta; “Great Charter”), is a royal charter of rights agreed to by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor, on 15 June 1215. First drafted by Archbishop of Canterbury, Cardinal Stephen Langton, to make peace between the unpopular king and a group of rebel barons, it promised the protection ofContinue Reading
Once, Sorotomo was a vast metropolis, a political centre of the Mali empire. Later, the city was abandoned in the wake of a violent attack. THE LONG-LOST metropolis at the heart of west Africa’s biggest-ever empire has been discovered by a British archaeologist. Investigations 200 miles south of the SaharaContinue Reading
The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600. It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia), and later with East Asia. The company seized control of large parts of the Indian subcontinent, colonised parts of Southeast Asia and Hong Kong, and kept trading posts andContinue Reading
Style of accompanied solo song consisting of a vocal line, which is frequently embellished, and simple, often expressive, harmonies. It arose about 1600, particularly in Italy, as a response to the contrapuntal style (based on the combination of simultaneous melodic lines) of 16th-century vocal genres such as the madrigal andContinue Reading
The Mayflower sails from Plymouth, England, bound for the New World with 102 passengers. The ship was headed for Virginia, where the colonists–half religious dissenters and half entrepreneurs–had been authorized to settle by the British crown. However, stormy weather and navigational errors forced the Mayflower off course, and on NovemberContinue Reading
A new dig in Mexico reveals the grisly fate of 550 people seized in 1520 by the Acolhua, allies of the Aztec and enemies of Spain. The son of minor Spanish nobility, Hernán Cortés sailed for the New World at age 19, in 1504. After spending several years in HispaniolaContinue Reading
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