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A Vermont Presbyterian Minister, Joel Edson Rockwell visited Europe in the 1850s. Part of his tour included France, in particular Lyon. He l...

Every new technology developed brings mix of reactions. Hesitations and missed expectation formed as part of birthing pains. Same goes to ev...

A towering figure that held no crown, nor office nor led armies, yet his handling of wealth brought him influence and contributed in changin...

Kings and Prime Ministers sought his advice and bow to him for loans and investments. Vast lengths of railroads and landscapes transformed b...

Queen Isabella II reigned in a tumultuous century for both Europe and Spain. Thrusted into politics as a toddler, she grew up to controversi...

While Queen Victoria enjoyed a nation riding high in imperial glory, her contemporary in Spain found her nation in disarray, plagued by poli...

In 1836, then Spanish Prime Minister Juan Alvarez Mendizabal unleashed his decree that targeted the privatization of lands owned by religiou...

David Ringrose said “the way in which access to land is defined, and the social constraints imposed on its use, play a major role in the mod...

PIGS - a convenient and sarcastic abbreviation for Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain, EU’s top economic troublemakers in the early 2000s. Su...

In 1854, Perry returned to Edo Bay to take the reply of the Japanese government from the letter that he delivered last year. A translation o...

Great Britain and Japan signed a treaty of friendship in Nagasaki just months after Perry left the Islands. It established the relation betw...

In 1855, Putiatin returned to Japan to conclude a treaty delayed for over a year. The Treaty of Shimoda established formal relations between...

In 2013 Pope Francis ascended as a successor of St. Peter and brought awe to many for the simplicity he brought to a position that everyone ...

The Citizen King, King of the French, the last King of France, titles given to Louis Philippe who ruled the continental kingdom during a tum...

How does a rich millennial spend his life? Pampered as a child, then passionately engulfed for a cause in his teenage years, then travels th...

In 1810, the Minister of Interior of the Napoleonic regime, Jean-Pierre, Count of Montalivet wrote a letter to Nicolas Appert, a famous conf...

Nicolas Appert made a leap in food preservation that it changed the diet of entire mankind within the 19th century turning food into an indu...

Innovating does not always ensure success or prosperity. Some ended up in dire financial stress for the rest of their lives. Just as the cas...

In June 17, 1854, after few months visiting ports opened to Americans, Commodore Matthew C. Perry, commander of the US Squadron assigned to ...

On March 31, 1854, in the village of Yokohama under the domain of Kanagawa, Commodore Perry and the Japanese commissioners led by Lord Hayas...