Historical Planet

The leader of some 700,000,000 Chinese is Mao Tse-tung Chairman of the Communist Party of the People's Republic of China. A soldier,...

Motor cars had made their appearance in the closing years of the nineteenth century. By the time that war broke out the efficiency and rel...

The classic column became a staple of Roman revival architecture in the United States. 

Within three years of their first electoral success, the Nazis acquired political power in Germany when Adolf Hitler became chancellor on ...

On the night of September 24th, 1916, the Zeppelin L33 was brought down by the combined efforts of the London defenses and 2nd Lieut. A de...