The Boer War (1899–1902) made a deep impression on contemporaries. In this war, the Boer farmers armed with the most modern weapons won several brilliant victories over the British regular army. On the battlefields of the Boer War, Mauser rifles and Maxim machine guns opposed the tactics of the Napoleonic Wars, which continued to adhere to the European army. After the last Boer army was defeated, a fierce guerrilla war continued for another two years. The British Empire ultimately won, but paid for it with a loss of twenty thousand soldiers. After the war, the British went to a completely...
John Smith is an English writer and sailor who stood at the origins of Jamestown, the first British settlement in the territory of the modern United States. In the imagination of the masses, the name of Captain John Smith is associated with a story he himself told about his "romantic relationship" with the daughter of an Indian chief named Pocahontas....
Thomas Okey was an expert on basket weaving, a translator of Italian, and a writer on art and the topography of architecture and art works in Italy and France.[1][2] In 1919, he became the first professor in Cambridge University under the Serena Professor of Italian title....
Many tourist attractions still have secrets: such buildings often have hidden rooms and unknown passages that most visitors are not even aware of. At first glance, they are completely invisible. For example, under the ventilation grille of a private mansion, you can suddenly find an old Catholic refuge with historical artifacts, and behind a bookcase - a room with a terrible message from past owners of the house....
Readers are invited to read a book by the famous German orientalist and Bible scholar, Julius Wellhausen, which examines the history of religion - especially the history of Christianity and the Israeli-Jewish religion. At one time in the West, this work became a reference book for everyone who wanted to get acquainted with the Old Testament. The author, with his unusual extraordinary clarity and wit, casts a glance back at the whole path taken by biblical criticism and confidently and calmly raises the question with an edge: should it not be finally recognized that the so-called legislation...
On January 18, 1871, the Second Reich was created. On this day, in the Palace of Versailles near Paris, Bismarck, in the presence of German princes, read out the text of the proclamation of the Prussian king as the German emperor. It was a triumph of the policy of unifying Germany with “iron and blood” of the great German statesman Bismarck. The German Empire politically united all states with the German population (25 states with 40 million Germans), with the exception of Austria, Luxembourg and Liechtenstein....
Orison Swett Marden is an American publicist, author of books on self-improvement and the path to success in life. He has published more than 50 books and brochures on this subject, since 1897 he has been publishing the Success magazine, which had about half a million subscribers....
Baldwin grew up in a family of a stepfather, a priest and was the oldest of nine children. Baldwin never knew his own father and partially suffered from this, which was reflected in some of his works. In his youth, Baldwin is going to follow in the footsteps of his stepfather and helps him in the church. But the older the future writer becomes, the more distinctly he understands that his stepfather’s sermons diverge from what is happening on the streets of Harlem, and, most importantly, with the behavior of the stepfather himself at home. After leaving school in the Bronx, Baldwin moved to...
This book aims to furnish a concise and connected account of human progress during ancient, medieval, and early modern times. It should meet the requirements of those high schools and preparatory schools where ancient history, as a separate discipline, is being supplanted by a more extended course introductory to the study of recent times and contemporary problems. Such a course was first outlined by the Regents of the University of the State of New York in their _Syllabus for Secondary Schools_, issued in 1910....
Alice Morse Earle was an American historian and author from Worcester, Massachusetts. Her writings, beginning in 1890, focussed on small sociological details rather than grand details, and thus are invaluable for modern social historians. She wrote a number of books on colonial America (and especially the New England region) such as Curious Punishments of Bygone Days....
The play takes place in 48–47 years BC. e. in Egypt, where Julius Caesar arrived during the civil war and joined as a decisive force in the dynastic conflict between Cleopatra and her brother Ptolemy XIII. This is one of the most brilliant plays by Bernard Shaw, marked by an exciting dynamic plot, splendor of the language and lively characters....
Poet Danske Dandridge was born in Copenhagen, while her father, Henry Bedinger, was serving as ambassador to Denmark. She was christened Caroline Dane Bedinger, her father giving her the nickname Danske (‘‘Little Dane’’). She lived her life from age 19 in Shepherdstown. She lived for a brief time at the Bower, the historic Dandridge family home near Leetown, following her marriage to A. B. Dandridge in 1877. The family then moved to Poplar Grove, near Shepherdstown, which she inherited from the Bedingers and renamed Rosebrake. She was educated at Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia....
Siegfried Sassoon - born in Kent, studied at Marlborough and Cambridge. Member of the First World War, officer. He was awarded a military cross. Like W. Owen, belongs to the group of "trench poets." In 1917, S. Sassun stated that "the goals for which the war is being fought are not worth so much suffering." English criticism called Siegfried Sassoon’s poems “an explosion of incandescent anger.” After the war, S. Sassun was engaged in literary criticism, published several books of poetry, but the best that he created relates to the period of the First World War....
Recently, when talking about Johnson's History, many usually grinned condescendingly, considering it a mishmash of real facts and fiction, but from time to time in some dusty nooks and crannies they find forgotten documents confirming the author’s correctness. Many events still considered a product of the imagination, turn out to be absolutely reliable both in time and in circumstances....
Charles Elmes’s fascinating book on the history of maritime piracy is unique in its breadth of coverage: it tells about Danish, Norman, Spanish, Westindian, Malay, Algerian and many other brutal and merciless sea robbers that instilled fear in sailors and peaceful mercantile people in different areas Oceans. The stories about the life of filibusters, supplemented by materials from lawsuits, reports of the Admiralty, stories of unfortunate people who fell into the hands of pirates, about the sufferings and misadventures that they had to endure, will allow you to find out a lot of interesting...
