The British in India had to face constant challenge to an unfamiliar climate. The main problem they had was the heat and humidity. In...

“The Dream” by Henri Rousseau is a remarkable piece of a painting from 1910. Although Henri Rousseau completed more than 25 paintings...

The first meeting of constituent assembly was held on 9th December 1946, addressed by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru to the house. Many great...

One of the paintings by Raja Ravi Varma that depicts bloodshed, this scene is taken from the India Indian epic Ramayana. Ravana cuts off...

A Parsian fashion designer Jacques Heim designed a two-piece swimsuit naming "Atome". Later in the year 1946 a French engineer Louis...

Depicting Sita lost in reverie in an ashram, Ravi Varma touches upon his favorite subject, the feminine form lost in thought. It could be...

Hamilton Howard " Albert Fish " was an American serial killer, cannibal, child rapist and kidnapper. He was also popularly known as The...

Circe Invidiosa is a painting by an English painter, John William Waterhouse completed in 1892. It is his second painting, after " Circe...

The 1986 nuclear power plant explosion in Chernobyl, Ukraine impelled massive amounts of radioactive material into the atmosphere. Around...

On September 30th, 1956, Thomas Fitzpatrick landed a stolen plane on St. Nicholas Avenue in northern Manhattan. The story goes, he had...

Creator: Hendra Gunawan, 1960 Publisher: Ciputra Artpreneur Painting Description: Agus Dermawan T. Type: Painting Medium: Oil on canvas...

Creator: Maximilian Lenz Publisher: Muesum of Fine Arts, Budapest Type: Painting Medium: Oil on canvas In the early 1890s Maximilian Lenz...

Cricket in colonial India was organised on the principle of race and religion. The first record of cricket being played in India is from...

One was a Bengali polymath and Nobel laureate with white flowing beard and piercing eyes. The other was the world famous scientist, with...

The Spanish Flu,also known as the 1918 flu pandemic, was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic. It was the grimmest pandemic of all...

Bristol artist Luke Jerram uses the technique of glass microbiology to sculpt Coronavirus( COVID-19) for a tribute to medical researchers...

A lot of mystery surrounds this photo. However, as per fact it’s a portrait of a Romanian oceanographer by Louis Boutan, taken sometime...

Hitler had recently been released from jail and was preparing for a speech. He would spend a lot of time practicing his mannerisms and...

Joe O’Donnell, the man who took this photo at Nagasaki, was sent by the U.S. military to document the damage inflicted on the Japanese...

The Great Famine may have been caused by an intense drought resulting in crop failure in the Deccan Plateau. But,the regular export of...