Who said it?
An auctioneer / joystiq.com Our first slightly intellectual quiz for the year 2015 presents the published words of an eccentric and wit, male, and the only clue to his identity is that he [...]
The army of British India
/ masterdraper.blogspot.com Also known as the ‘Indian Army’, this was a British – officered military force in India; the other ranks, corporals, sergeants and warrant officers were recruited from the native population. Even [...]
Hohenstaufen & Hohenzollern Dynasties (further notes)
What remains of the castle at Staufen / flickrhivemind.net Brief details of these two important German dynasties have appeared before on in General-History.com. Here are some additional notes: The Hohenstaufen royal dynasty got [...]
Some Alexander Popes
Alexander VI / listverse.com These four Italians and one Spaniard made a contribution to the history of the Catholic Church, positive or negative according to your view and that of historians. Each chose [...]
Some Clement Popes
Clement XIV suppressed the Jesuits / en.wikipedia.org Six Italian and one French, the following pontificates flourished (or not depending on their history) during the fourteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: Clement V (Bertrand [...]
Some Urban Popes
Maffeo Barberini painted by Caravaggio / en.wikipedia.org Three French popes and one Italian, dating from the eleventh century, the thirteenth, fourteenth and finally the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, form up for inspection in [...]
Some Innocent Popes
Innocent IV / ztopics.com From the twelfth century to the eighteenth century several Popes called Innocent stand out: they are:- Innocent III (Lotario dei Conti di Signi). He was Pope from 1198 to [...]
Latin American revolutionaries: Zapata & Villa
Emilio Zapata /en.wikipedia.org Emiliano Zapata was a Mexican revolutionary, son of a peasant of mixed (meztizo) blood. At around twelve he became an agricultural worker, then entered politics by arousing the local peasants [...]
New France & the North American fur trade
Fur trading with Native Americans in Canada / herbmuseum.ca The name 'New France', which sounds rather arbitrary, was the name given to all the North American territories France claimed to own between 1524 [...]
The Treaty of Nerchinsk
The Treaty is signed / epicworldhistory,blogspot.com Before the seventeenth century China had been almost a myth; a legendary giant land in the Far East, barely visited by Europeans, a subject for dreams. But [...]
The Nobel Peace Prize
Yasser Arafat, one of the winners of this award / the guardian.com In the case of a suitable candidate being found, this is an international prize, awarded annually, to a person or an [...]
Robert Owen, a founding father of Socialism
/ en.wikipedia.org Though Owen was born in 1771, a son of a successful maker of saddles for horses and mules, he started work in a cotton mill in Manchester at the usual age [...]
The Piast Dynasty
King Wenceslas was a Piast / storynory.com Here is a strange and indeed rather wonderful thing; the Piasts were the first rulers of Poland, princes descended from a Polish legend called Piast (alive [...]
The Compilation of the Laws of the Kings of the Indies
First volume of the Compilation / ww7.uc.cl This was published in four volumes in 1681 in Madrid; the title in Spanish is Recopilación de las leyes de los Reinos de las Indias, rather [...]
Eduard Shevardnazde
/ telegraph.co.uk This politician came from Georgia, a Soviet state until democratization. He was born in 1928, did well in history studies at the Kutaisi Institute of Education and joined the Communist party [...]
The Prime Ministers of Great Britain – a list
The first Prime Minister – Robert Walpole / historiasyvidas.com The first ‘Prime Minister’ to hold that title in Britain was Robert Walpole, a Whig. Before 1721 there were First Ministers, Lord Chancellors, Heads [...]
The Spanish General Union of Workers
/ blogs.iesabroad.com The UGT (Unión General de Trabajadores) is one the two really large Spanish trade unions, the other being CC.OO (Comisiones Obreras). It was founded in 1888, at a difficult time for [...]
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