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The assassination attempt on Gaspard II de Coligny, Admiral of France (l. 1519-1572) on 22 August 1572 was the spark igniting the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre beginning on 24 August and continuing in Paris for the next five days and elsewhere...

Any itinerary for a visit to Bangkok, Thailand would include some of the city's must-see historical and cultural sights: - The 24-hour flower market (Pak Khlong Talat) filled to the brim with jasmine-scented garlands, fragrant carnations...

The American Civil War was fought by some of the most famous military strategists of all time, but not all of them had any business being in charge. Whether because of cowardice, foolishness, or drunkenness, these are the generals who failed...

View of Great Zimbabwe's 'Great Enclosure'. This is the largest collection of ruins in southern Africa. The Gokomere Empire flourished here from the 11th Century CE to its collapse in the early 15th century CE.

An Inca rest station on the Inca Trail, Peru. Such stations were built at regular intervals along most major Inca highways.

Artificial Leg, photographic print, c. 1864. With more than 20,000 Union soldiers surviving surgical amputations in the last three years of the conflict, the scale and carnage of the American Civil War hastened advancements in the art and...

West Point and the Highlands, colour engraving by Samuel Valentine Hunt, 1869. Depicted here is a view from the heights of the west bank of the Hudson River, looking northward along the valley. The United States Military Academy, also commonly...

These two bells were found in northern Mesopotamia. Neo-Assyrian period, 911-609 BCE. From Mesopotamia, Iraq. (The Sulaymaniyah Museum, Iraq)

The Ottoman Sultanate (1299-1922 as an empire; 1922-1924 as caliphate only), also referred to as the Ottoman Empire, written in Turkish as Osmanlı Devleti, was a Turkic imperial state that was conceived by and named after Osman (l. 1258-1326...

The Columbian exchange is a term coined by Alfred Crosby Jr. in 1972 that is traditionally defined as the transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Old World of Europe and Africa and the New World of the Americas. The exchange...