Manet the Sailor. Édouard Manet initially planned a career in the navy, despite his talent for drawing. After leaving school ...

Known for painting the muse of a famous yogurt brand, Vermeer (1632-1675) is an essential Dutch artist of the Dutch Golden ...

An essential figure of Viennese Symbolist painting, Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) is renowned for his portraits and feminine ...

The Egyptian Empire was one of the most powerful in the world in its day, thanks in no small part to a host of inventions.

Indeed, human lives—and even history itself—would not be the same without the intervention of certain animals. Some have shown such heroic qualities that they have helped us in wars, in major ...

For two centuries, literary historians have searched for the real-life origins of this German folk tale. Their research led them to the tragic story of Margaretha von Waldeck… Born in 1533, Margaretha ...

The Great Frost of 1709, also known as the Big Freeze, was a severe and prolonged cold wave that occurred in Europe during the winter of 1708-1709. It resulted in extreme cold temperatures and had ...

The public’s perception of black cats has always been negative due to their association with evil and superstition, witchcraft, and curses. In Ancient Egypt, people tended to avoid black cats.

To understand its origins, we must go back to the end of World War II. Following the Yalta Conference, Germany, which surrendered in 1945, was divided into four occupation zones controlled by the ...

With the Maastricht Treaty, the European Economic Community (EEC), which was created on March 25, 1957, in Rome, became the European Community (EC), one of the main institutions of the newly ...

An exceptional hunter, the Siberian tiger can crush a wild boar’s skull with a single bite. Fearless, it even dares to attack bears! As a result, it preys on large animals, needing about 8 kilograms ...