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The era of piracy in the Caribbean began in the 1500s and phased out in the 1830s after the navies of the nations of Western Europe and North America with...

The river Kladeos flows through Olympia in Elis, Southern Greece, and empties into the river Alfeios. As a tributary of the Alfeios, the Kladeos is fed...

Shumishi (Chinese: 樞密使), or shumi, was an official title in imperial China important in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, the Liao dynasty, the...

Serapion was a Patriarch of Antioch (Greek: Σεραπίων; 191–211). He is known primarily through his theological writings, although all but a few fragments...

Letters and Papers of the Reign of Henry VIII (full title: Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII: preserved in the Public...

Frederick Cornwallis, 1st Baron Cornwallis (14 March 1610/1 – January 1662) was an English peer, MP and Privy Counsellor. He was Treasurer of the Household...

Amanoiwato-jinja (天岩戸神社) is a Shinto shrine located in Takachiho, Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan. It is dedicated to the sun goddess Amaterasu and sits above...

These are some of the notable events relating to politics in 2004. January 1- Adnan Pachachi becomes president of the Iraq Interim Governing Council and...

This is a list of alumni of Girton College, Cambridge. "The Year 2016". Obituary: Eirlys Roberts. 21 March 2008. Retrieved 2 November 2017. {{cite book}}:...

Borisav "Bora" Ristić was a high-ranking officer of the Serbian Army. For a short time, he held the post of the Minister of the Army, Navy and Air Force...

Saint Modoald, also known as Romoald, was the Frankish archbishop of Trier from 626 to 645. He is the patron saint of the Reichsabtei Helmarshausen and...

Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America (ISBN 0156013363) is a 2000 book by journalist Stephen G. Bloom. The book documents the struggle between...

Chu Qing (Chinese: 楚青; pinyin: Chǔ Qīng; March 1923 – 21 February 2016), born Zhan Yongzhu (詹永珠), was a bureaucrat of the People's Republic of China. She...

Alphonse François (25 August 1814, Paris - 7 July 1888, Paris) was a French engraver. Alphonse François and his elder brother Charles-Rémy-Jules François...

William Bousie (died after 1787), was an Anglo-French merchant. In 1776 Bousie met Count Cagliostro in London. In 1783-1787 Bousie was involved with the...