In the latter half of the 19th century, sweeping reforms laid the foundations for a newer and more powerful Japan.

The 1548 Battle of Uedahara demonstrated that skillful use of even rudimentary firepower could challenge elite military ...

Unleashing a global ideology that changed the world, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels altered the course of history.

The Day of the Dead originated not as a party but as a sacred Aztec ritual honoring Mictēcacihuātl, the Queen of the ...

The history of Kongo Gumi, the oldest company in the world, is the tale of 14 centuries of Japanese miyadaiku craftsmanship, ...

Before the Spanish and Portuguese empires dominated the seas, Scandinavian Vikings reached the shores of America, Africa and ...

When America chose to bomb Japan, the imperial capital city of Japan was not a practical choice for various reasons.

The Nephilim are one of the most mysterious topics featured in Genesis – and that’s saying a lot, as it’s competing with a total global flood. Many theories about the Nephilim range from fallen angels ...

The Old English epic poem Beowulf is a classic story of darkness and light. Sinister, inhuman forces are portrayed as locked in battle with the forces of humanity and virtue. Yet, the monsters are ...

Albert Camus ends The Myth of Sisyphus with: “One must imagine Sisyphus happy.” This line confuses many readers of Camus’s text. Within the secondary literature we find scholars questioning how it is ...

Edgar Allan Poe laid the groundwork for modern detective fiction through his creation of C. Auguste Dupin, the analytical protagonist of The Murders in the Rue Morgue, widely regarded as the first ...

One of the most famous locations in the Arthurian legends is the Isle of Avalon. This was the mysterious island to which King Arthur was said to have been taken after he was severely wounded at the ...