Historical Planet

  Simo Häyhä was a Finnish farmer who took part in hunting and target practice from a young age. In 1939, the Soviet Union invaded Finland. ...

When Albert Einstein met Charlie Chaplin in 1931, Einstein said, "What I admire most about your art is its universality. You do not say...

Capernaum, a city of ancient Palestine, on the west or northwest side of the Sea of Tiberias. This place is famous in Christian history, bec...

  HENNEPIN, en-pari or hen'e-pin, Louis, French Franciscan missionary and explorer in North America: b. Ath, Belgium, about 1640; d. U...

Orchestra conductor and pianist; Avas born at Darmstadt, Bavaria. At Heidelberg and Leipsic he studied philosophy, graduating from the Unive...

Discovered in an abandoned mine in New Mexico, a set of Levi's jeans dating back to the 1880s were recently sold at an auction for $87,0...

In the spring of 1945, Winston Churchill ordered his Chiefs of Staff to draft, ‘Operation Unthinkable’ to attack the Soviet Union after WW2 ...

By the mid-1930s, the city had expanded extensively into the newly developed suburbs. Bombay was thus beginning to spread outward in a north...