Bulgaria celebrates Levski as the Apostle of Freedom. Born Vasil Ivanov Kunchev on July 18, 1837, he was crucial in ...

Islam, by contrast, redrew the whole political map of the Mediterranean and the Middle East at a ... Three different kinds of answers were given to it. By 1848, the great battlefields of the age had ...

Charles de Gaulle’s insistence on French power and autonomy is being cited widely in France; one politician demanded that an ...

This is the story of the 1848 European revolutions, one of the most dramatic and significant moments in the history of the ...

It’s even stranger, seeing as I’m in France. However ... “When slavery was abolished in 1848, the search for cheap labour for the plantations meant people came from all over,” says ...

As Madame Renards' balloon was being inflated, it suddenly burst into flames. While one unfortunate bystander had his ...

Prologue An Orphic hymn says that Kypris, Aphrodite of Cyprus, was the “scheming mother of necessity.” She controlled and ...

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Credit: Getty Images Per the Danish Royal Family, King Christian VIII, who ruled Denmark from 1839 to 1848, collected the ancient stones while visiting Italy with his wife Queen Caroline Amalie.

Thanks to its proximity to Paris, Normandy makes for an easy daytrip that's especially popular with travelers interested in seeing Monet's house and gardens or the D-Day Beaches. But if you only ...

The tiara was created around 1820 for Queen Caroline Amalie, the second wife of King Christian VIII, who reigned over Denmark from 1839 to 1848. The gold piece features 11 gems that were collected ...