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Though most would think the foundation of philosophy and mathematics do not intertwine, a man born on April 28, 1906 in the small Austro-Hungarian town of Brunn (modern Brno, Czech…
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Long before Sultan Mehmed II terrified Europe after seizing Constantinople, the western edge of the continent fell under Muslim control when the Moors landed on the Iberian Peninsula. Tariq ibn-Ziyad,…
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*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons At the height of an era when pilots of all kinds pushed their aircraft to the limits, Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, the Marquis of Clydesdale, took his Westland…
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*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Six months after the United States Congress passed legislation authorizing the purchase of assets from a variety of industries, news from the American auto industry worsened…
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*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons At 6:01pm on April 4, 1968, a gunshot cracked through the air. Within moments, civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr. was bleeding profusely on the…
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April 5 1242 – Alexander Nevsky Defeats the Teutonic Knights at the Battle of the Ice
by Vishul Malik*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Frustrated with the slow eastward advance of the Teutonic Order, Alexander Nevsky stood on the shores of Lake Peipus determined to halt the German knights’ encroachment…
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*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons The town of Urbino, a small hamlet 20 miles from the northeastern coast of Italy, is a charming locale in the heart of Tuscany. Nestled among…
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*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Since the end of the European colonial era in the middle of the 20th century, portions of the African continent have been in near-constant turmoil. In…
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*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons In the midst of the Great Depression, President of the United States Franklin Delano Roosevelt launched an ambitious program to put Americans to work on behalf…
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Among the reams of history written during World War II, few people could be said to provide a more intriguing character study than Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Hanged at the Flossenburg concentration…
