During the British colonial rule over Africa in the late 19th and early 20th century, the British aspired to find various methods of...

The lady in the picture with the mirror held above her head was Mrs. Edna Egbert from the 1940s. The photographer caught her in the ready...

The Delhi Durbar meaning "Court of Delhi" was an Indian imperial-style mass assembly organized by the British at Coronation Park, Delhi,...

The first royal proclamation to India was made at Allahabad in northern India, on the 1st of November 1858, which will ever be a...

The history of ice creams probably began back around 500 BC in the Achaemenid Empire of Persia (Iran) with ice combined with various...

During the autumn of 1910, China began to report a unknown and deadly pneumonic disease that had reached Harbin in the extreme Northeast...

This photograph was taken dated on 17 June 1911 at the Women’s Coronation Procession through London. The Women’s suffrage societies had...

The Demolition of the Most Beautiful Library in America

The first annual Cannes Film Festival was held at the resort city of Cannes on French Riviera from 20 September to 5 October 1946.

On the night of 23 January, 1795, a French Revolutionary Hussar regiment captured a Dutch fleet frozen at anchor between the 3 kilometres...

Neerja Bhanot is the first and only woman recipient of the India's highest civilian award for bravery " Ashoka Chakra" ( 7 September 1963...

The world's first car accident happened in Ohio city in 1891. James William Lambert who was an automobile engineer was involved in the...

Albert Bierstadt was a skilled showman. Here, he reorganized Rocky Mountain landmarks, exaggerated their scale, and introduced dramatic...

This picture shows the hand of Clarence Madison Dally (1865-1904), an American glassblower who worked with Thomas Edison in his work on...

The history of Mother's Day is centuries old such as during the 1600s, the Christians in England celebrated a day to honor Mary ( the...

New York Police Department Criminologist Roy Post invented his own version of a lie detector machine called the Postometer, the test...

Thomas Moran was an American Painter and a print-maker of the Hudson River School in New York. Moran was younger brother of the noted...

Joseph Carey Merrick also known as John Merrick, was an English man with severe deformities. Best known as " The Elephant Man", he has...

Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks draws a crowd of 20,000 to the Wall Street and the foot of the United States Sub Treasury building...

Federico Fellini directed a comedy drama film La Dolce Vita; Italian for the " the sweet life " in the year 1960, which starred Marcello...