Writing the History followed Mommsen's earlier achievements in the study of ancient Rome. He had not himself designed to write a history, but the opportunity presented itself in 1850 while at the Univ ...
Jean Victor Duruy (11 September 1811 – 25 November 1894) was a French historian and statesman.Duruy was born in Paris, the son of a factory worker, and at first intended for his father's trade. Havin ...
Born in Saint-Sauveur-Lendelin (Manche), after studies of Philosophy at the Collège de Navarre, he started his career during the Ancien Régime, making his first appearance as a lawyer in Paris in 17 ...
Napoleon has become a worldwide cultural icon who symbolises military genius and political power. Martin van Creveld described him as "the most competent human being who ever lived". Since his death, ...
The Fourth Coalition was assembled in 1806, and Napoleon defeated Prussia at the Battle of Jena-Auerstedt in October. He marched against advancing Russian armies through Poland and was involved in the ...
Napoleon was born on 15 August 1769 to Carlo Maria di Buonaparte and Maria Letizia Ramolino in his family's ancestral home, Casa Buonaparte, in the town of Ajaccio, the capital of the island of Corsic ...
Montesquieu was born at the Ch?teau de la Brède in the southwest of France, 25 km south of Bordeaux. His father, Jacques de Secondat, was a soldier with a long noble ancestry. His mother, Marie Fran ...
The first English coffeehouse opened in Oxford in 1650. Brian Cowan argues that Oxford coffeehouses developed into "penny universities", offering a locus of learning that was less formal than structur ...
The Age of Enlightenment reached Poland later than in Germany or Austria, as szlachta (nobility) culture (Sarmatism) together with the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth political system (Golden Freedoms) ...
The term "Enlightenment" did not come into use in English until the latter part of the 19th century, with particular reference to French philosophy, as the equivalent of the French term 'Lumières' (u ...
Ancient tradition connected Herculaneum with the name of the Greek hero Herakles (Hercules in Latin and consequently Roman Mythology), an indication that the city was of Greek origin. In fact, it seem ...
The earliest recorded mention of prostitution as an occupation, appears in Sumerian records from ca. 2400 BCE, and describes a temple-bordello operated by Sumerian priests in the city of Uruk. The 'ka ...
The earliest recorded mention of prostitution as an occupation, appears in Sumerian records from ca. 2400 BCE, and describes a temple-bordello operated by Sumerian priests in the city of Uruk. The 'ka ...
From the French bordel, ca. 1200 "bordel" sing. "prostitution place". The French word bordel comes from the Old German word Bord, which means "board". This word was used to describe the shacks made of ...
'Resistance' a graffito found on a wall in Nablus, West Bank, Palestine in 2011A preserved 1920 graffiti written on a wall in Sremska Street in Belgrade, Serbia, with the slogan Гласа?те за ...
