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The Eastern Front was a theatre of World War II fought between the European Axis powers and Allies, including the Soviet Union (USSR) and Poland. It encompassed...

Crimea (/kraɪˈmiːə/ kry-MEE-ə) is a peninsula in Eastern Europe, on the northern coast of the Black Sea, almost entirely surrounded by the Black Sea and...

Mindaugas (German: Myndowen, Latin: Mindowe, Old East Slavic: Мендог, romanized: Mendog, Belarusian: Міндоўг, romanized: Mindowh, Polish: Mendog; c. 1203–1263)...

The White Tower of Thessaloniki (Greek: Λευκός Πύργος Lefkós Pýrgos; Turkish: Beyaz Kule; Ladino: Kuli Blanka) is a monument and museum on the waterfront...

On 20 August 2020, Russian opposition leader and anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny was poisoned with the Novichok nerve agent and as a result, he...

The flag of the Altai Republic, in the Russian Federation, is a four stripe bicolour of light blue and white. The width of the stripes, from top to bottom...

Johann Fust or Faust (c. 1400 – October 30, 1466) was an early German printer. Fust was born to a burgher family of Mainz, traceable back to the early...

The Jewish Socialists' Group (JSG) is a Jewish socialist collective in Britain, formed in the 1970s. JSG was founded in Manchester/Liverpool in 1974–1977...

Grdeša (Serbian Cyrillic: Грдеша, Latin: Gerdessa, Gurdeses; fl. 1150–51) or Grd was a local Slavic chieftain from the region surrounding Trebinje, who...

TV8 is a Lithuanian terrestrial, satellite and cable television channel aimed at women, owned by TV3 Group. It was launched on 3 October 2011. On the air:...

TV3 Plus is a Baltic pay television channel owned by the TV3 Group broadcasting to the Russian-speaking community in the Baltic states. It was launched...

Ansel Marshal (also Ancel or Hansel, usually Anseau in French, died 23 December 1245) was the youngest and last of the five lawful sons of William Marshal...

Andreas von Antropoff (Russian: Андрей Романович Антропов; 16 August 1878, Reval, Russian empire — 2 June 1956, Bonn) — Russian (Estonian-born) and German...

Franck is a Croatian coffee and tea company. Based in the city of Zagreb, it was founded in 1892 as a part of the German multinational company "Heinrich...

The Arte da Lingoa Canarim, the grammar of the Konkani language, was composed by the 16th-century English Jesuit priest Father Thomas Stephens, thus making...

Pietro Antonio Loro Piana (Trivero, 6 September 1883 – 1941) was an Italian engineer and entrepreneur. He founded the textile company Loro Piana Pietro...

On 12 June 2023, former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi died at the San Raffaele Hospital in Milan, aged 86, due to complications from a severe...

Udo Walz (28 July 1944 – 20 November 2020) was a German celebrity hairdresser. Considered the first German celebrity hairdresser, his clientele included...

Rainaldo was a 12th-century architect in Pisa. He is assumed to be the one who completed the work on the Pisa Cathedral started by Buscheto. The attribution...