The Colosseum
The Colosseum is a giant amphitheatre in the centre of Rome, the largest ever built and one of the most recognisable monuments of the ancient world.…
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Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance whose range across art and science has made his name a byword for genius. Born in…
Phrenology
Phrenology was a popular nineteenth century practice that claimed a person's character and mental abilities could be read from the shape and bumps of…
The Renaissance
The Renaissance was a period of extraordinary cultural and intellectual flowering in Europe, lasting roughly from the fourteenth to the seventeenth…
Henry Ford
Henry Ford was an American industrialist who founded the Ford Motor Company and revolutionized manufacturing with the moving assembly line. Born in…
Christ the Redeemer
Christ the Redeemer is a colossal statue of Jesus that stands atop Mount Corcovado overlooking the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro. With arms…
The Roman Empire
The Roman Empire was one of the largest and most influential civilizations in history. At its height it ruled much of Europe, North Africa, and the…
Machu Picchu
Machu Picchu is a fifteenth-century Inca citadel perched high on a mountain ridge in the Andes of Peru, around 2,400 metres above sea level. Famous…
Stonehenge
Stonehenge is a prehistoric stone monument on Salisbury Plain in southern England, a ring of enormous standing stones raised some four to five…
The Printing Press
The printing press is a machine for transferring ink onto paper to reproduce text and images quickly and in large numbers. Its development in Europe…
French Revolution
The French Revolution (1789–1799) was a period of radical political and social upheaval in France that ended the Bourbon monarchy, abolished feudal…
The Eiffel Tower
The Eiffel Tower is a wrought iron lattice tower in Paris, France, and one of the most recognized structures in the world. Standing about 330 metres…
Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and statesman who served as the country's first democratically elected president.…
Spontaneous Generation
Spontaneous generation was the long held belief that living organisms could arise directly from non living matter. People thought maggots formed from…
The Founding and Agricultural Development of Brandon, Manitoba
Brandon, Manitoba was established in 1881 as a planned railway town along the Canadian Pacific Railway and rapidly became the agricultural hub of the…
Great Pyramid of Giza
The Great Pyramid of Giza is the largest of the Egyptian pyramids and the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and the only one still…
Great Wall of China
The Great Wall of China is not a single wall but a vast, discontinuous system of fortifications, walls, watchtowers, garrisons, and beacon towers,…
Phlogiston Theory
Phlogiston theory was an early explanation of combustion, widely accepted in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It held that all flammable…
The Geocentric Model
The geocentric model was the ancient belief that the Earth sits motionless at the center of the universe, with the Sun, Moon, planets, and stars all…
The Martian Canals
The Martian canals were a network of fine, straight lines that some astronomers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries believed they…