It is not public knowledge that the first Tour de France was thought of by newspapermen as a publicity stunt. An unorganized group of cyclists began from outside a bar on the outskirts of Paris in 1903. Soon enough, the tour grew
In 1911, the King of Great Britain and Ireland, king George V, journeyed to India to be sworn in as Emperor of India in a great Durbar in Delhi on the 12th of December 1911. The location for the event was to
The large collection of photographs in the Tyne-Wear Archives depicts mugshots of Edwardian Britain depicting minors arrested for petty crimes. The youngest among the photographs belong to those from the ages of 12 to 21, as that was the legal age of
The start of the 1914 war had a large populace of Belgians impoverished and wretched, the Belgians were not left out while the Germans were on their conquest over France. The annexation and conquest of Belgium left hundreds of thousands in Belgium
A large number of women were brought in to fill the vacancies in the jobs that were vacant as a result of men going to fight in World War I. New jobs opened up to fill in the needs created by the
Out of the numerous evacuations of Belgian, French and British troops from Northern France after the Allied loss of the Battle of France, Dunkirk was the largest evacuation. During the evacuation, not less than 330,000 men were moved from Dunkirk and the
The clothing that was in style between the late 1890s and 1914 or the beginning of the Great War is referred to as Edwardian fashion. The era popularly known as the Gilded Age, and La Belle Epoque (the Beautiful Era) was a
JoAnne Chesimard popularly known as Assata Olugbala Shakur was born on the 16th of July 1947, in Flushing, Queens. She spent more of her life in New York City and Wilmington, North Carolina. Known for keeping late nights and running from home
SEE ALSO: Saga za Ab – Ethiopian Ambassador To 16th Century Portugal The Romani tribes had gone through persecution and humiliation for centuries in Europe. They faced the stereotype and were seen as criminals, social misfits, and vagabonds. After Adolf Hitler came
Elizabeth II was Queen of the United Kingdom and 14 other sovereign countries from February 6th, 1952 till her death in 2022. She reigned for 70 years and seven months as the longest British monarch. She was the first child of the
Sarah Rector, a black citizen of Muskogee(Creek) Nation, was born on March 3, 1902, and is popularly recognised as the “Richest coloured Girl in the world”. Sarah Rector was born to the family of Joseph Rector and his wife Rose McQueen in
In 1939, when World War II started many advised the British royal family especially, the Queen and princesses Elizabeth and Margaret, then 13 and 9 years old respectively, to move to Canada. The Queen refused and didn’t stop riding in Buckingham Palace
Saga za Ab more commonly known in Europe as Sagazabo or Zaga Zabo, was an ambassador from Ethiopia who came to Europe in 1527-1533. He was sent by Lebna Dengel, the Ethiopian king to Portugal in 1527. He was part of a
Nathaniel Adams Coles was born on March 17, 1919, in Montgomery, Alabama. He had three siblings and a half-sister, Joyce. The family moved to Chicago, Illinois when Nat turned 4, where his father became a Baptist minister. He had learnt to play
On May 11, 1997, a rematch in a chess tournament was being played between Garry Kasparov and the Deep Blue computer AI. The Deep Blue faceoff against Garry Kasparov was a pair of six-game chess matches played between the world chess champion,
Francisco de Arobe was a leader of the coastal Afro-Indian Maroon communities of Esmeraldas in early colonial Quito, the recent time Ecuador. Born during the 1560s to an African slave, Andrés Mangache and a woman who was an indigene of Nicaragua, they