Manet the Sailor. Édouard Manet initially planned a career in the navy, despite his talent for drawing. After leaving school ...

Known for painting the muse of a famous yogurt brand, Vermeer (1632-1675) is an essential Dutch artist of the Dutch Golden ...

An essential figure of Viennese Symbolist painting, Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) is renowned for his portraits and feminine allegories, marked by exaggerated sensuality and provocative modernism.

Wojtek (1942-1963) was a Syrian brown bear, found by a child in Iran. The child traded him to the Polish army in exchange for some food. The soldiers adopted him during World War II, first as a mascot ...

The Egyptian Empire was one of the most powerful in the world in its day, thanks in no small part to a host of inventions.

The Great Frost of 1709, also known as the Big Freeze, was a severe and prolonged cold wave that occurred in Europe during the winter of 1708-1709. It resulted in extreme cold temperatures and had ...

The public’s perception of black cats has always been negative due to their association with evil and superstition, witchcraft, and curses. In Ancient Egypt, people tended to avoid black cats.

Everyone knows Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the Disney animated film released in 1937. However, the tale that inspired it is much older and is based on a real story—one far darker than the version ...

To understand its origins, we must go back to the end of World War II. Following the Yalta Conference, Germany, which surrendered in 1945, was divided into four occupation zones controlled by the ...

With the Maastricht Treaty, the European Economic Community (EEC), which was created on March 25, 1957, in Rome, became the European Community (EC), one of the main institutions of the newly ...

Where does the leopard seal live? The leopard seal inhabits the cold waters of the Southern Hemisphere, including the Southern Ocean (Antarctic Ocean), the South Pacific Ocean, and the South Atlantic ...