Since humans discovered the power and capability that comes with numbers, we have lived in societies that enable us to … ...

The Little Ice Age was a period of global cooling that began during around 1300 CE and lasted until about 1850. Average ...

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A Roman mosaic in Alter do Chão, Portugal, depicts Alexander the Great's clash with King Porus—one of only three such mosaics ...

Peritas the legendary dog followed Alexander the Great on the path to glory, fighting alongside his master and saving his ...

BC, the Near East was dominated by three powerful kingdoms: the Median Empire of Astyages, the Neo-Babylonian Empire of ...

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The author of literary classics such as Eugene Onegin and The Queen of Spades, Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799-1837), is ...