Our universe is composed of celestial bodies such as stars, planets, asteroids, and comets. All of these celestial bodies possess specific structural characteristics. They can also organize themselves ...

The First White Terror during the French Revolution was a violent anti-Jacobin reaction during the Thermidorian Reaction (1794–1795). After Robespierre’s fall on ...

Louis XV (1710-1774) was King of France from 1715 to 1774. Great-grandson of Louis XIV, he succeeded him on the throne at the age of just five: power was entrusted to the regent Philippe d’Orléans ...

The Parker Solar Probe, launched on August 12, 2018, is the fastest man-made object in space. It travels at 393,000 km/h (244,000 mph), fast enough to cover the distance between Paris and Tokyo in 1 ...

Over nine hundred years ago, thousands of Europeans set out to reclaim the Holy Sepulchre — a term that symbolically referred to Jerusalem and the surrounding Holy Land. Since then, many myths and ...

Ivan the Terrible (1530–1584) is, for most of our contemporaries, a symbol of Russian history in the 16th century—a period when the separate lands and principalities of Northeast Rus were being united ...

In Arabic, Islam means “submission to God,” and a Muslim is a person “devoted to God.” Like Jews and Christians, Muslims are monotheists. They believe there is only one God who created the world and ...

The existence of the Oaths of Strasbourg in 842, which are mutual assistance oaths between Charlemagne‘s grandsons (a bilingual document in the Gallo-Roman language, the “ancestor” of French, and in ...

The Boer War is a conflict that pits the Boers, Dutch-speaking settlers of South Africa, against the British. In the late 18th century, the two communities competed for the colonization of southern ...

The Ennead (known in Egyptian as pesedjet, Greek Εννεάδα – Ennead) is a concept in ancient Egyptian mythology and theology developed in the significant religious center of Heliopolis in Lower Egypt.

Ghoul (Arabic: الغول‎, al-ghūl, French: goule) is a monster or demon appearing in Arabian mythology, dwelling in deserts, graveyards, and other desolate places. In Islamic mythology, ghouls disguise ...

The term “Man in the Moon” is a common reference to a pareidolic figure resembling a human face, which is easily visible on the surface of the Moon from Earth, especially during the full moon, ...