by Aseem Gupta | Jul 28, 2016 | History, Empires & Civilizations
Reading Time: 56 MinutesWorld War 1 is often remembered through a few familiar images: muddy trenches, gas masks, machine guns, barbed wire, and exhausted soldiers waiting for orders to climb out of their defenses and attack. It is also remembered through a simple...
by Aseem Gupta | Jul 27, 2016 | History, Empires & Civilizations
Reading Time: 52 MinutesWhen Kim Jong Il died in December 2011, North Korean state television broadcast extraordinary scenes of public mourning. People collapsed in the streets, clutched one another, wept uncontrollably, and struck the frozen ground as the funeral...
by Aseem Gupta | Jul 22, 2016 | Biography, Lives & Historical Figures
Reading Time: 17 MinutesBy the night of 21 July 1456, the walls of Belgrade had been battered by Ottoman artillery, and the defenders were struggling to keep Sultan Mehmed II’s army out of the fortress. Three years earlier, Mehmed had conquered Constantinople....
by Aseem Gupta | Jul 14, 2016 | History, Empires & Civilizations
Reading Time: 36 MinutesIn 1789, France was one of the most powerful kingdoms in Europe. Ten years later, its king had been executed, its monarchy abolished, its aristocratic privileges dismantled, and its government repeatedly overthrown. A revolution that began with...
by Aseem Gupta | Jul 7, 2016 | History, Empires & Civilizations
Reading Time: 25 MinutesChocolate is one of the world’s most familiar indulgences. It comes in bars, truffles, cakes, drinks, and countless other forms, usually associated with sweetness, pleasure, and celebration. Yet for most of its history, chocolate looked...
