Story of Titanic
Birth of a Great Lady Construction of the RMS Titanic began on March 31, 1909 at the Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She was one of three large transatlantic liners...
View ArticlePlaces of Interest in Britain
London The Tower of London Constructed by William The Conqueror towards the end of 1066 and became a prison in 1100 until 1952, today the Tower adopts the name ‘Bloody Tower’, for the Tower has held...
View ArticleEngland’s past Kings and Queens
House of Norman – 11th Century 1066 – William the Conqueror 1087 – William Rufus (son of William) House of Plantagenet – 12th, 13th & 14th Century 1100 – Henry I (brother of William Rufus) 1135 –...
View ArticleColonial Revolutions
The European empires in the New World lasted in most cases for a little more than 300 years. By the early nineteenth century most European colonies had frown off their Old World masters and had became...
View ArticleNapoleonic Warfare
Warfare during the age of Napoleon was defined by several parameters: the effective range of a smoothbore musket (50-100 yards); the effective range of a cannon ball (1,000 yards); the speed of...
View ArticlePirates!
From the late 1500s into the 1700s, the Caribbean Sea was a hunting ground for sea pirates that preyed on ships of Spain at first, but later of all nations with colonies and trading outposts in the...
View ArticleThe California Gold Rush
Gold was discovered in 1848 at Sutter’s Mill, near Sacramento, California. Far from a celebration, the discovery proved a disaster for John Sutter, who was more interested in cultivating his land. Once...
View ArticleThe Fur Trade
Although North America was largely ignored by Europeans for a hundred years after its discovery, the area around Newfoundland was visited regularly by fishermen. These men often traded with natives,...
View ArticleThe Industrial Revolution
The second great human economic transformation after the rise of agriculture was the Industrial Revolution, which was basically the gradually conversion of handmade craftsman manufacturing to...
View ArticleThe Thirty Years War
Part of the aftermath of the Protestant Reformation was a series of wars that attempted to abolish Protestantism and restore the Catholic Church’s predominance. The most vicious of these was the Thirty...
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