 Germany a Land of Culture Goethe, Bach and Beethoven – the cultural life of Germany has a long and rich tradition. Nowadays, however, names like the painter, Gerhard Richter and the director, Fatih Akin, and German hip-hop, also stand for a lively, many-faceted land of culture. The nation’s culture emanates from the peaceful and tolerant coexistence and collaboration of all who live in Germany at the present time.
Music ... Date added: 21 November '07 |
 Sarajevo Sarajevo is the capital and largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Sarajevo's population is estimated at around 600,000.
Sarajevo is considered one of the most important cities in the Balkans and has had a long and rich history ever since it was founded by the Ottomans in 1461.
It was the site of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which sparked World War I; more recently Sarajev ... Date added: 10 July '06 |
 History Of The Olympic Games The Olympic Games - The History Of The Olympic Games
by Lucy Bartlett -
Olympics or The Olympic Games is a multi-sports event which takes place once in four years and comprises of winter and summer games. It is an international event and almost all the countries in the globe participate in the games.
The first Olympic game was held in the year 776 BC in Olympia, Greece. The games were he ... Date added: 21 November '07 |
 About the English Renaissance by Herminne Tonita -
In England the Renaissance is usually thought of as beginning with the accession of the House of Tudor to the throne in 1485. Politically, this marks the end of the period of civil wars among the old feudal aristocracy-the War of the Roses, and the establishment of something like a modern, efficient, centralized state. This date is also close to that of the introduction of ... Date added: 28 January '07 |
 The Life of Henry VIII by Herminne Tonita -
Henry VIII was born at Greenwhich on 28th January 1491, the second son of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York. He became heir to the throne on the death of his brother, Prince Arthur, in 1502 and succeeded in 1509. In his youth he was athletic and highly intelligent. A contemporary observer described him as: " he speaks good French,Latin and Spanish, is very religious and he is ... Date added: 29 January '07 |
 The Life of Henry VII by Herminne Tonita -
The century of the Tudor rule (1485-1603) is often thought of as the most glorious period in the English history.
Henry VII(1482-1509) is less well-known than his son, Henry VIII or his grand-daughter, Elizabeth I, but far more important in establishing the new monarchy. He had the same ideas and opinions as the merchants and gentlemen and that is why he was very popular ... Date added: 30 January '07 |
 Do you like historical stories? by Cristina Nuta -
I have always liked history. I remember that during my years at school I was always excited by the History lessons to come, because it was a real pleasure for me to find out new things about our past, even if the majority of my colleagues hated History and could not understand how I could like it so much. They felt horrified when we had test-papers in History because it was a ... Date added: 09 July '07 |
 History Set in Stone by Cristina Nuta -
Many species of animals and plants have disappeared from the earth. They have died out or become extinct. But sometimes animals or plant remains can be found buried in rocks. 'These are called fossils. Imprints in rocks (paw prints, for example) are also called fossils.
Not every creature survives as a fossil. Many simply rot away completely and leave no trace of their exi ... Date added: 22 July '07 |
 Earliest Man by Monique Barb -
In the earliest times primitive men lived in caves, in rough shelters made of twigs and branches or in stone huts covered with turf.
Archaeologists have been able to trace the ancestry of man back to a period about 40,000 years ago. There are remains of men who lived much earlier than this, but their descendants may have become extinct in the same way that many wild animals ... Date added: 27 September '07 |
 A Stone Age Settlement by Monique Barb -
The great Ice Age ended about 12,000 years ago and the ice sheets of northern Europe melted slowly, forming lakes and marshes and causing the level of the sea to rise. At that time Britain was still joined to the continent of Europe. Groups of people lived by these. lakes and marshes; they hunted deer and wild pig, and collected berries and nuts from the trees like their prede ... Date added: 28 September '07 |
 About The New Stone Age by Monique Barb -
The first farmers lived in the Middle East about 10,000 years ago. Somehow they learned how to sow seed in order to grow crops. Perhaps they discovered this accidentally when harvesting wild wheat or barley. They dug up the ground with primitive digging sticks and, when the corn appeared, they used polished flint sickles to cut off the ears of corn. They also discovered that w ... Date added: 28 September '07 |
 The Bronze Age by Monique Barb -
The peoples of the Middle East were using metals at a time when our ancestors were using flint and stone. But in time the idea of using metals spread from the Middle East to Europe and eventually to Britain. The first metal users to settle in this country were the Beaker people. They knew how to use copper and bronze and made daggers and axes from these metals.
The Beaker ... Date added: 30 September '07 |
 Life in the Iron Age by Monique Barb -
The Iron Age came to Britain in exactly the same way as the previous revolutions in farming and in the use of bronze. Warrior farmers came over from Europe and settled in south-eastern England. This area of Britain was close to their homelands in Europe, it was well favoured for farming, there was iron stone to be found in the area known as the Weald and also forest land to pr ... Date added: 01 October '07 |
 England History : Village Life in Middle Ages by Monique Barb -
The Village was usually small with only a handful of cottages. A village was large if it had as many as two dozen cottages containing about 100 people. Besides the cottages and the manor house or castle there was usually a mill and a church. There were no shops in the village, although several villagers were part-time carpenters, smiths or wheelwrights. In some villages there ... Date added: 08 October '07 |
 England History : Farming in the Later Middle Ages by Monique Barb -
In time life on the manor changed. As the centuries passed, the distinctions between villeins, cottars, bordars and others disappeared. Men were either free or they were villeins owing labour services to the lord of the manor. But as the towns grew and developed, many villeins fled from the villages and sought freedom in the towns. To gain their freedom they had to live for mo ... Date added: 08 October '07 |
 England History : Medieval Warfare by Monique Barb -
In the earliest Middle Ages it was the obligation of every noble to respond to the call to battle with his own equipment, archers, and infantry. This decentralized system was necessary due to the social order of the time, but could lead to motley forces with variable training, equipment and abilities. The more resources the noble had access to, the better his troops would typi ... Date added: 15 October '07 |
 The Growth of Towns during Middle Ages in England by Monique Barb -
Towns are necessary in all countries because it is essential to have places where goods can be bought and sold. The buying and selling can take place in shops or in a market place. As you saw on page 75, the villages did not usually have shops and, although they had parttime craftsmen, they did not normally have people whose main livelihood came from anything other than the op ... Date added: 15 October '07 |
 England History : The Woollen Industry by Monique Barb -
The Saxon invasions in the fifth century nearly destroyed the industry in England. But it is known that in the eighth century Britain was exporting woollen fabrics to the Continent and after the arrival of the Norman conquerors in 1066 the industry expanded. By the twelfth century wool was becoming England's greatest national asset. Cloth making was widespread, particularly in ... Date added: 17 October '07 |
 England History : Entertainment and Sport in Middle Ages by Monique Barb -
Although life was hard in the Middle Ages, there were opportunities for games, sports and entertainments. When the Thames froze over, Londoners skated on the ice and sometimes they made sledges of ice and slid the ice blocks across the frozen river. It was the custom on Shrove Tuesday in the twelfth century for all the young men of London to 'go out into the fields to play at ... Date added: 17 October '07 |
 Travel in the Middle Ages Britain by Monique Barb -
Travel in the Middle Ages was either on land or by water.
Rich people sometimes travelled in covered wagons. They must have been very uncomfortable as they did not have suspension and roads were bumpy and rutted. Others travelled on a box between two poles. Two horses, one in front and one behind carried it. They were trained to walk at the same pace.
On land the travel ... Date added: 17 October '07 |
 The Post Office by Monique Barb -
The first mail coach service was opened in 1784 from Bristol to London and offered a more certain postal service than that provided by the postboys. For one thing the mail (and the passengers) were guarded. The coaches left the General Post Office in the evening about 8.0 p.m.
In 1830 the Liverpool to Manchester railway was opened and mail travelled by train for the first ... Date added: 17 October '07 |
