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Christopher Columbus’ exploits awed Europe with the possibility of reaching the riches of Asia without the arduous travel east into vast des...

Everyone knows Hitler as the embodiment of evil with the Allies as the forces of good. But within the ranks of these "good" stood ...

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

Coming from a family of illustrious soldiers, John Byng, the later 5th Viscount of Torrington, decided to add a sideline to his resume, that...

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...

“Bird of the same feather, flock together.”

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...

When Isabella took the crown of Castile, what was her kingdom like?

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

Thomas Newcomen (1663 - 1729) introduced to the world his invention at work in 1712 in Dudley Castle. His invention inspired others to devel...

The Baptist preacher and iron monger Thomas Newcomen and his partner John Calley held their breath as they watched and waited for the beam o...

A woman that towered over a patriarchal society and period. Isabella of Castille transformed her Kingdom from a divided society into a great...

Isabella gazed upon the foreign navigator in his presence pondering on the cost and rewards of this person’s proposal, crew and ships for an...

From the devastation of the Spanish Succession War that the 18th century introduced, Catalonia emerged with a flourishing economy that explo...

After suffering more than a decade of war and devastation in its wake, the people of Catalonia dreaded their future in the hands of their vi...