Nobel Prizes owe their appearance to Alfred Bernharder Nobel (1833 – 1896), who distinguished himself as an inventor and industrialist. In 1895, Nobel made a will. It states, it says, that annually the income from his capital, divided into five equal parts, should be distributed in the form of bonuses.
Vincent Willem van Gogh is an extraordinary artist. The forerunner of emotional art, impasto and contrast painting.
The Holocaust is perhaps one of the most tragic events in the long-suffering twentieth century. The event is so tragic that it will be quite difficult to determine how many people died as a result of the racial policy of the Third Reich.
For more than 50 years, North Korea has been an authoritarian country. It is still one of the few countries in the world ruled by a communist dictator.
Silk Road - this was the route by which silk, paper and other achievements of the Middle Eastern civilization came to Europe.
The Solar System is a planetary system in the Milky Way galaxy in which the Sun is the central star. Billions of celestial bodies are gravitationally bound to the Sun.
War - an organized armed conflict between two or more states, blocks of states, nations or social groups, the purpose of which is to force the enemy to accept the demands or ideology of one of the parties.
Muhammad wanted Islam to be different from Judaism, he wanted to emphasize its distinctiveness. That is why he introduced not three, but five prayers and turning during prayer not towards Jerusalem, but towards Mecca.
The founder of the famous fast food chain Kentucky Fried Chicken (better known in the world under the acronym KFC) Garland David Sanders was born in 1890 in Henryville, Indiana.
Napoleon Bonaparte is a unique personality. This talented commander, dreamer and favorite of women, embodied all the best and worst features of an entire era, which simply cannot but attract the attention of the widest public to him.
Route 66 - it has become a symbol of an entire era, a haven for bandits and a witness to a turning point in the history of the most powerful country in the world. Films, novels and cult songs were dedicated to her. You must have heard of her.
Love stories are very different, and therefore you should not consider the pair of Romeo and Juliet sung by Shakespeare as a “reference” option. Cinema made Bonnie and Clyde, the famous couple of gangsters from the USA, world-famous.
In 356 BC, in the Macedonian capital city of Pella, King Philip II and his wife Olympias gave birth to the future great commander for all time and the conqueror of many lands - Alexander the Great.
DAF Trucks started out as a small workshop in Eindhoven, The Netherlands in 1928. "Hub Van Doorne, Machinefabriek en Reparatie-inrichting" (Hub Van Doorne Workshop) - named after its founder, 28-year-old Hub Van Doorne - primarily focused on welding and forging.
The deepest place on Earth is located in the southwestern Pacific Ocean - Marian Trench. It is located near the Mariana Archipelago, west of the Philippines.
Fidel Castro Ruz was born on August 13, 1926 in the Cuban city of Biran. His father was Galicia Angel Castro, who had deep Spanish roots.
A Conspiracy Theory is an unconventional explanation for something in a world that involves secret, powerful, and often sinister groups. This is speculative, that is, not based on verified facts.
Utopia is an ideal place, a paradise where people live in harmony with nature. This place is an exemplary society with an abundance of everything that people need to survive and live a long happy life.
Everest is the most powerful mountain on the planet Earth. It is located in Asia in the Himalayan mountains.
Margaret Thatcher - the most famous Prime Minister of Great Britain was born under the sign of Libra in 1925 in the south-eastern part of the country, in the Midlands. The share of Margaret Thatcher turned out to be one of the crisis periods in the history of England.