He conquered land across three continents, ruled over states from Egypt to modern-day India, and never lost a battle – before ...

In the 19th century, Wallace’s observations were striking ... His employers were usually wealthy landlords who hired him to map their estates to determine how much their tenant farmers owed ...

Some of the most iconic castles in the world are associated with King Ludwig II of Bavaria. A romantic dreamer, often re ...

Seemingly forgotten now, Culture.pl examines the peculiar 18th- and 19th-century literary phenomenon ... Toward the end of the 18th century, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was partitioned by its ...

There’s no doubt Scottish levels of basic literacy and numeracy were there with the best educated parts of Europe, at the time Prussia and ... of Europe in the mid-19th century.

Not until the Napoleonic conquests of the early 19th century was the old regime undermined and a comprehensive ... triggered reformist efforts in other German states, particularly in Prussia. At the ...

During the late 19th Century, Germany became an important power in European. As a nation, Germany was relatively new - separate German-speaking states such as Prussia ... A map from 1893 showing ...

In the late 19th century, Georg Brandes made several trips to Poland ... which at the time wasn’t actually on any of the maps. Poland, as the memorable phrase (from some ten years later) from Alfred ...

Born Francois-Marie Arouet in 1694, this celebrated playwright, poet, essayist, and philosopher reinvented himself as simply ...

Our journey will be further enriched by grand monuments, dedicated to the generals and industrialists who elevated Prussia to a leading European power and forged Berlin into an imperial capital by the ...

Like other funiculars constructed in the 19th century, the Duquesne Incline (along ... Bube's Brewery landed a spot on the map for its crisp, German-style lagers, a popular style of beer during ...

Then, in 2008, the agency decided it needed to modernize and phase out its 19th-century payment method ... with SEPTA hiring infrastructure firm HNTB to design the King of Prussia rail project before ...