A Swedish royal dynasty (1523 – 1818)
Garbo as Queen Christina with two male friends / ixozino.htw.pl The Vasa dynasty provided monarchs for Sweden, with only two exceptions, from the beginning of the sixteenth century to just after the end [...]
A new head of the House of Alba
The Duchess starts her third marriage / nick verreos.blogsite.com The best known duchess in Spain, probably Europe too, has died after a long life (1926 – 2014) and a short but fatal illness. [...]
A reminder from Dean Swift
Very soon now all THREE volumes of General History will have been published and available for a sale at a very cheap price On AMAZON BOOKS These three volumes contain almost all the posts published [...]
The Irish Rebellion
An artist’s impression of an incident in the Irish Rebellion; not the leader’s attempt to block the cannon’s mouth In World History, the last years of the eighteenth century as opposed to the [...]
Andrew Johnson
/ wikihistoria.wikispaces.com The seventeenth President of the USA has things in common with two others who held the office – Lincoln and Lyndon Baynes Johnson: like Lincoln, Andrew J. was born in a [...]
Purges in Soviet Russia
Josef Stalin / globalsecurity.org Stalin ordered the arrest, summary trial and subsequent execution of millions of people in Communist Russia, particularly between the years 1936 – 8. His aim was simply to put [...]
Andrew Jackson
/ de-wikipedia.org Son of an Ulsterman, Jackson was born in South Carolina 1767, a true-grit Southerner. Fame was first achieved by his leadership and reputation for courage in fighting the Creek Indians.Though he [...]
François P.G. Guizot
/ en.wikipedia.org This statesman was born 1787, not a safe time to be born anywhere in France. His father was killed by the guillotine during the Terror (q.v.); somehow François survived to serve [...]
Immigration to the United States
Immigrants – those who arrive in a new country having left their own: Emigrants – those who leave their own country to go to another: Emigration – the act of leaving one’s country to start [...]
The influenza pandemic (and panic) of 1918
Mass treatment for influenza in the USA / en.wikipedia.org The Plague, or the Black Death or Bubonic Plague struck down nearly a third of the population in most European countries during the Middle [...]
The riot in the Haymarket Square
/ fineartamerica.com Haymarket Square is in Chicago. In 1886 a diminutive anarchist movement, led by German agitators, gathered there to cause trouble. They called on the crowds to achieve reforms by violent action, [...]
The Russo-Polish War of 1929
Following the collapse of Germany at the end of the Great War, Poland foundf herself independent, a most unusual position for that sad country. It was November, 1918; Marshal Pilsudski was commander of Polish forces [...]
Friedrich Engels
Engels as a young man / theguardian.com Marx and Engels go together like Marks and Spencer; Karl and Groucho are however better known than Engels, though without him we would probably have had [...]
Charles James Fox
/ telegraph.com was born in 1749, but his upward mobility was such that he was in Parliament at the age of nineteen. This may have been been because in debating societies at school [...]
Erich von Falkenhayn
/ es.wikipedia.org This Junker was born in 1861. As a child at severe schools he was perceived as self-reliant, honest and intelligent. He must have used these talents well because by 1913 he [...]
Who were ‘the Free French?’
/ en-wikipedia.org Germany attacked France in May, 1940. 136 German divisions faced 125 British, French and Belgian ones. The Germans had over two thousand tanks, but even their commander admitted half were obsolete. [...]
Herbert Asquith (Ist Earl of Oxford and Asquith)
/ en.wikipedia.org Only Dickens, or perhaps Anthony Trollope, could have invented the name Asquith for one of their novels. It is a respectable surname, but certainly rather odd. Our subject was born in [...]
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