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During the 16th century, it could be said that the Spaniards truly ruled the waves. Once a backwater feudal kingdom,

Quiz: Could you survive the Black Death?

The Black Death also known as the Great Plague was one of the most ruinous pandemics ever to hit humanity

They say a picture is worth a thousand words and nowhere is it truer than within the context of history.

According to the butterfly effect, tiny changes in a system lead to huge repercussions. By an extension of that, events

While much of us are aware of the tragedy that occurred today 15 years prior, it wasn’t the first world-changing

History is laden with weird incidents and events defying rational explanations (which is interpreted as godly presence), whereas certain historic