There were rumors that even though Hatshepsut never remarried, she had a man in her life: Senenmut. He was a prosperous man who also worked as a tutor for the royal family, and ended up with two tombs, like Hatshepsut herself. […]
Egypt had novel achievements during the reign of Queen Hatshepsut, a great king. Among all the other things, she built the first zoo in Egypt! During her reign, the animals were imported from the “god’s land,” from where not many people had come back alive. […]
Hatshepsut gained power as a widowed queen, but later she appointed herself as the king of Egypt. As the first female king, she built herself one of the most beautiful and remarkable temples, but there is more to the temple that makes it so important today. […]
Motion pictures have had a major impact on the society since its invention. Read to know more about this powerful medium that has affected people globally. […]
In the United States, Thomas Edison enthralled an audience with astounding images using his Vitascope, and around the same time, the Lumière Brothers also created films of one minute duration in France. However, their perspectives regarding the motion pictures differed greatly.
Read about the contributions of Thomas Edison, Lumière Brothers, and Georges Méliès to the world of motion pictures. […]
Watching movies on our smartphones may seem like a big change from the collective viewing in a theatre. However, it is in fact almost like returning to the single viewer display of motion pictures on the nickelodeon boxes of the 19th century. Read to know about the journey of motion pictures. […]
While many countries were flooded with refugees, some people were forcibly evicted from their homeland, leading them to seek asylum in foreign lands. Read to learn about the types of asylum seekers and the process of asylum seeking. […]
There were different kinds of refugees, but they all faced similar struggle of leaving their homeland to settle somewhere in the unknown. […]
Greek refugees had gone through a lot of suffering, including leaving behind their homes and sometimes their families. In spite of visible struggles, their plight was ignored and not recorded in history. […]
Black colonization and emancipation were important issues in the Civil War. The seemingly feasible solution of colonization was put to test, and it failed. Eventually, the enslaved African Americans got freedom. […]
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