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The early modern period is a historical period that is part of the modern period based primarily on the history of Europe and the broader concept of modernity...

The history of slavery spans many cultures, nationalities, and religions from ancient times to the present day. Likewise, its victims have come from many...

Aristotle Socrates Onassis (/oʊˈnæsɪs/, US also /-ˈnɑː-/; Greek: Αριστοτέλης Ωνάσης, romanized: Aristotélis Onásis, pronounced [aristoˈtelis oˈnasis];...

This article contains special characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Dido (/ˈdaɪdoʊ/ DY-doh;...

1972 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1972. 1972 (MCMLXXII)...

Linear or point-projection perspective (from Latin perspicere 'to see through') is one of two types of graphical projection perspective in the graphic...

1955 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1955. 1955 (MCMLV) was...

Alabaster is a mineral and a soft rock used for carvings and as a source of plaster powder. Archaeologists, geologists, and the stone industry have different...

Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1898. 1898 (MDCCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting...

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (subtitled A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years in Britain) is a 1997 transdisciplinary...

Wreck diving is recreational diving where the wreckage of ships, aircraft and other artificial structures are explored. The term is used mainly by recreational...

The history of the Later Roman Empire covers the history of the Roman Empire from the beginning of the rule of Diocletian in 284 AD (1037 AVC) and the...

Print culture embodies all forms of printed text and other printed forms of visual communication. One prominent scholar of print culture in Europe is Elizabeth...

In Greek mythology, Psalacantha (Ancient Greek: Ψαλάκανθα) was a nymph of the island Icaria, who later got turned into a plant by the god Dionysus. According...

The Decline of the West (German: Der Untergang des Abendlandes; more literally, The Downfall of the Occident) is a two-volume work by Oswald Spengler....

The high visibility of the star cluster Pleiades in the night sky and its position along the ecliptic (which approximates to the Solar System's common...

1943 January February March April May June July August September October November December The following events occurred in May 1943: More than 480,000...

South Australian was a composite-hulled clipper ship that was built in Sunderland in 1868 and sank in the Bristol Channel in 1889. She was a successor...

Windsor Castle was a wooden-hulled, three-masted sailing ship that was built in England in 1857 and wrecked off the coast of Cape Colony in 1884. William...

1943 January February March April May June July August September October November December The following events occurred in October 1943: The U.S. Fifth...