The Royal Navy of the 18th century is depicted in many novels and several films dramatising the voyage and mutiny on the Bounty. The Royal Navy's Napoleonic campaigns of the early 19th century are a p ...
After the Second World War, the decline of the British Empire and the economic hardships in Britain at the time forced the reduction in the size and capability of the Royal Navy. All of the pre-war sh ...
Main articles: History of the Royal Navy and Royal Scots NavyDevelopment of England's navy 900–1500 The strength of the fleets of the Kingdom of England was an important element in the kingdom's powe ...
The possibility of an alliance between United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Empire of Japan had been canvassed since 1895, when Britain refused to join the triple intervention of France ...
Main article: Wills of Tadeusz Ko?ciuszkoBefore Ko?ciuszko left for France, he collected his back pay, wrote a will, and entrusted it to Jefferson as executor. Ko?ciuszko and Jefferson had become f ...
Ko?ciuszko was born in February 1746 in the village of Mereczowszczyzna (since 1945 Merechevschina, Belarus), a folwark near the town of Kosów Poleski (since 1945 Kosava, Belarus). His exact birthda ...
The conflict is commonly referred to as simply the Boer War, since the First Boer War (December 1880 to March 1881) is much less well known. "Boers" was the common term for Afrikaans-speaking settlers ...
The BBC operates a Gaelic-language radio station Radio nan Gàidheal as well as a television channel, BBC Alba. Launched on 19 September 2008, BBC Alba is widely available in the UK (on Freeview, Free ...
Most varieties of Gaelic have between 8 and 9 cardinal vowels () that can be either long or short. There are also two reduced vowels () which only occur short. Although some vowels are strongly nasal, ...
Aside from "Scottish Gaelic", the language may also be referred to simply as "Gaelic". In Scotland, the word "Gaelic" in reference to Scottish Gaelic specifically is pronounced , while outside Scotlan ...
Kisch was born into a wealthy, German-speaking Sephardic Jewish family in Prague, at that time part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and began his journalistic career as a reporter for Bohemia, a Pragu ...
Lyons was born in Stanley, Tasmania, the grandson of Irish immigrants. His father, Michael Lyons, was a successful farmer who afterwards engaged in a butchery and bakery business, but lost this on acc ...
Moran was born at Leighlinbridge, County Carlow, Ireland in 1830. His mother and father died by the time he was 11 years old. In 1842, at the age of twelve, he left Ireland to pursue studies for the p ...
Francesco Salesio Della Volpe (4 January 1911 – 5 November 1916?); announced election of Pope Benedict XV (1914)Gaetano Bisleti (5 November 1916 – 17 December 1928*); announced election of Pope Piu ...
There is disagreement about the origin of the term, but general consensus that "cardinalis" from the word cardo (meaning 'pivot' or 'hinge') was first used in late antiquity to designate a bishop or p ...
