Extraterritoriality

Starting in the year 1096, the Christian kingdoms of the Latin Church united to retake religious sites in the Holy Land. This war was known as a crusade. This was just the first in a series of nine of...

30 Huhti 202416min

The First World War wasn’t just fought on the fields of France and Belgium. There were lesser battles fought on the homefronts of the nations which were fighting.  In the United Kingdom and other Comm...

29 Huhti 202413min

Adolf Hitler single-handedly started the Second World War in Europe.  While the Allies were desperately trying to end the Third Reich and Hitler personally, they weren’t the only ones trying to bring ...

28 Huhti 202413min

By the early 19th century, the United States and Great Britain had already fought two wars with each other.  Those two wars were not enough to resolve all of the territorial and border disputes betwee...

27 Huhti 202414min

In 1854 an unusually severe outbreak of cholera occurred in London.  While cholera was not an uncommon disease, physicians at the time weren’t sure what caused it.  This time, one doctor took a comple...

26 Huhti 202412min

In 259 BC, a boy named Ying Zheng was born in the state of Qin in modern-day China.  He was born into the royal family of the kingdom and ascended to the throne at the age of 13.  For most people, bec...

25 Huhti 202414min

In the 19th century, New York City was one of the fastest-growing cities in the world.  However, it was still a very young city, and as such, the city’s leaders were able to take a step back and plan ...

24 Huhti 202414min

Almost as soon as Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in 1947, people began thinking of ways to transport passengers at supersonic speeds.  However, the challenges in creating a passenger aircraft th...

23 Huhti 202412min