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4 days ago · Circassia (/ s ɜːr ˈ k æ ʃ ə / sir-KASH-ə), also known as Zichia, was a country and a historical region in the North Caucasus. Located along the northeastern shore of the Black Sea , [10] [11] it was conquered by the Russian Empire during the Russo-Circassian War (1763–1864), after which approximately 90% of the Circassian people were ...
3 days ago · The 1970s (pronounced "nineteen-seventies"; commonly shortened to the "Seventies" or the "' 70s") was a decade that began on January 1, 1970, and ended on December 31, 1979. In the 21st century, historians have increasingly portrayed the 1970s as a "pivot of change" in world history, focusing especially on the economic upheavals [1] that ...
19 hours ago · Slavery is the ownership of a person as property, especially in regards to their labour. Slavery typically involves compulsory work, with the slave's location of work and residence dictated by the party that holds them in bondage.
4 days ago · Founded in January 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, Wikipedia is a free-content encyclopedia project based on an openly editable model. Wikipedia’s articles provide links to guide the user to related pages with additional information.
5 days ago · The final destruction of the Latin States of the eastern Mediterranean coast, which had been established during and in the wake of the First Crusade, offered a fittingly dramatic climax to a narrative that spanned very nearly two centuries.
2 days ago · Encyclopaedia Britannica, the publisher of the namesake encyclopedia and the Merriam-Webster dictionary, is looking to raise fresh capital to repay debts of its Swiss owner Jacob E. Safra,...
1 day ago · The title of Stevenson's concluding chapter, 'the crown's use of chivalry', underlines what have been the principal themes of her book, the relationship between the Scottish kings of the last medieval century and the knighthood of their kingdom, and the interactions of knightly values with the royal style of leadership and government.
