This is Jantar Mantar, an astronomical observatory in Jaipur, India completed in 1734. It contains this machine, the world's largest…
The Waldenses were a group of Christians centered in the Alps that were opposed to the Catholic church before the…
How the 9th century Bishop Claudius of Turin took on the powerful Catholic church and their worship of images.
You may know Marco Polo as the first European to visit China. Did you know he was certainly not the…
Today the Linville Gorge is some of the most remote wilderness in the US East of the Mississippi River. When…
The Old Senate Chamber in Philadelphia. The US Senate met here during the first years of the republic. Many decisions…
When the Americans attacked the British Sherry at Germantown in 1777, some British troops barricaded themselves in Cliveden, this imposing…
These bones were sent to President and naturalist Thomas Jefferson by a friend. He first believed them to be the…