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As the only one of the original ‘seven wonders of the world’ left standing today, the pyramids remain and represent an awesome display of amazing engineering, fantastic artwork, creative advancement and responsible workmanship, especially for something that was...

To be ‘civilized’ in the modern era is to believe in, follow, think like and accept the attitudes, evaluations and perceptions of the theories of the ruling elite of the day. In the 21st century, those invested with that power is the US, Europe and the Western World....

Born Cheng Hsiang (259-210 BCE), he became ruler of Ch'in in North West China aged just thirteen. His prime minister served as regent but was exiled when Cheng came of age in 236 BCE. He then embarked on a quest to over-run all other feudal states within China. He...

Not too long ago, people from Belgium, France and many other countries came to visit humans, locked up in cages, exhibited in front of a large audience and thrown in with animals at their local zoo. Many people, (200 to 300 thousand) would visit these minorities who...

As strange as the title sounds, it is sadly true; a black boy was publicly put on the electric chair for a double crime; rape and murder. Ironically, everything about the trial from the defending attorney, the evidence presented, the testimonies, the judge's remarks...

This was the age of rapid industrial expansion, movies and theatres making their mark across the US, high fashion, stage dancing, the birth of commercialisation and celebrities in sport, a surge in wealth for the upper and middle classes and a rich splendour of...

It was a Sanskrit word, ‘Sindhu’, meaning ‘river frontier’ that the current name, ‘India’ is from. The ‘Rig Veda’, one of India’s earliest texts speaks of a land called Sapta-Sindhava, which is today the Punjab. It was formerly the land of seven rivers. In the modern...

In 1969 the youngest head of state in the world overthrew the oldest one in a country that was only eighteen years old. Colonel Muammar Al Qadaffi was twenty-seven years old when he assumed power. His predecessor, King Idris Al Senussi (1889-1983), was already...

Leaving the podium after a historic speech would surely have lifted his spirits, given him confidence to continue and move on with a ray of sunshine, but Parvez Musaharraf, the President General of Pakistan looked worn out and unhappy. The country had just aligned...

As he ran faster and faster, feverishly looking behind to see no one had seen him, fatigue eventually forced him to stop. It had only been a short distance from the farm where he had worked earlier in the day as a slave. Years had passed and he had aged but time was...

Ranjit Singh was born to Mahan Singh on 13th November 1780 of the Sukarchakia branch of the Sikh military confederacy. His father had laid the foundations to the future reign of his son and by the time Ranjit Singh was 17, he assumed the throne. His first taste of war...

Descended from the City of Warburg in Germany (from which they gave themselves the name), the family can trace itself back four centuries to the 1600s. While not quite as influential, charismatic or as rich as the Rothschilds, the Warburgs were at one stage the...

It was in the 19th Century several European nations took a more than passing interest in Chinese affairs and each took a sizable slice of territory at China’s expense. The only stranger to this form of exploitation was Japan; it was not a western country but an...

He was born an Ethiopian, but died an Indian. By the time of his death he had been taught economics and finance as an art, learned about administration and government and was entrusted with the responsibility of senior archer, soldier, general and commander in chief....