Alex Fox is a freelance science journalist based in Washington, D. You can find him at Alexfoxscience. Today, the figurative field of battle has become a literal one: Israel's Sharon Plain.
Post a Comment. Meanwhile, Saladin died in , possibly of typhoid, according to doctors who retroactively diagnosed him based on historical records, Live Science reported in Laura is an editor at Live Science. She edits Life's Little Mysteries and reports on general science, including archaeology and animals. She has won multiple awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association for her reporting at a weekly newspaper near Seattle.
Laura holds a bachelor's degree in English literature and psychology from Washington University in St. Louis and an advanced certificate in science writing from NYU. Live Science. Image 1 of 4. Image 2 of 4. Image 3 of 4. Image 4 of 4. David Nicolle. Saladin Bloomsbury, But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us!
Subscribe for fascinating stories connecting the past to the present. The Crusades were a series of religious wars between Christians and Muslims started primarily to secure control of holy sites considered sacred by both groups. In all, eight major Crusade expeditions occurred between and The bloody, violent and often ruthless The leader of Zimbabwe since its independence in , Robert Mugabe was one of the longest-serving and, in the latter years of his reign, most infamous African rulers.
In , General Idi Amin overthrew the elected government of Milton Obote and declared himself president of Uganda, launching a ruthless eight-year regime in which an estimated , civilians were massacred. His expulsion of all Indian and Pakistani citizens in —along The South African activist and former president Nelson Mandela helped bring an end to apartheid and has been a global advocate for human rights. A member of the African National Congress party beginning in the s, he was a leader of both peaceful protests and After the National Party gained power in South Africa in , its all-white government immediately began enforcing Since declaring a The war, which claimed an estimated , lives, pitted Britain, France, Turkey and Sardinia against Russia, whose ruler, Czar Nicholas I, was attempting to expand Was Albert Einstein really a poor student, did he almost become the president of Israel and what, if anything, did he have to do with the development of the atomic bomb?
Separate Einstein myth from reality and explore some of the most startling chapters from the life story of It enables a more direct route for shipping between Europe and Asia, effectively allowing for passage from the North Atlantic to the Indian Ocean without having to
0コメント