Tag: History
Today in History: Lascaux Cave Art Discovery.
Seventy-eight years ago today, on September 12th, 1940, only just fifteen miles away from the town Montignac, in southwest France, […]
Historic Photo: Pope John Paul II embraces AIDS sufferer.
The AIDS pandemic in the mid 1980’s created out-and-out fear in communities around the world. Reaching out to those who […]
Historical Painting: Napoleon in burning Moscow by Albrecht Adam, 1841.
The campaign of Russia in 1812 has often been said to be the beginning of the end for Napoleon. (Two […]
Historical Painting: “8th August, 1918” by Harold Septimus Power (1930).
Following the launch and the initial success of the German Spring Offensive in March 1918, there was talk that the […]
Today in History: Justinian I becomes sole emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
The remarkable rise of a peasant boy named Petrus Sabbatius (Justinian I The Great), to the lofty heights of the […]
Today in History: The battle of Varbitza Pass and the death of Byzantine Emperor Nikephoros.
There have been many Byzantine Emperors who had died in battle – Emperors Julian, Valens and famously Constantine XI Palaiologos, […]
Today in History: Birth of Rembrandt van Rijn.
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was born July 15th 1606 in Leiden during The Dutch Golden Age (1585-1702) where the Dutch […]
Today in History: The death of Roman Emperor Hadrian.
Relatively early in the complex state that was the Roman Empire, a man named Hadrian (Publius Aelius Hadrianus), became the […]
The Song That Saved America: Composer Trevor Kowalski on “The Battle Cry of Freedom”.
We are thrilled to have Trevor Kowalski, an American composer, pianist, arranger and songwriter, here today to talk about one of […]
Historical Painting: Battle of Kosovo of 1389 by Adam Stefanović.
There were two significant battles in the Ottoman conquest of the Serbian state in the fourteenth century. The first of […]
