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91My trip to Perth and SouthWest Australia
The Perth city centre itself is not very big. However, there are some not-to-be-missed sights which every traveller should visit. When I was there recently in December 2009, i visited these places: 1. Perth Mint The Perth Mint has a long history...
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84US History - The American Revolution
The British against the French, the British against the Native Americans, and the British against the Colonists.
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83Nongqawuse and the greatest “self-inflicted” national immolation in history?
A young girl's prophecies decimated the amaXhosa in the mid-19th Century, leaving deep traces to this day. Nongqawuse's story of meeting some men at a mystic pool led to mass cattle-killing by the Xhoisa people - a national suicide
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82CHURCHES OF HISTORICAL IMPORTANCE IN INDIA
CHURCHES OF HISTORICAL IMPORTANCE IN INDIA SAN THOME CATHEDRAL, CHENNAI The first important church associated with a prominent personality is San Thome Cathedral in Chennai (formerly Madras). It was built over the very place...
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79Falkland Islands
The remote Falkland Islands are located about 300 miles off the tip of South America and is considered a self-governing British Territory even though Argentina does not agree with this. The Falkland Islands has been under British rule since 1833. ...
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78Desmond Tutu to get Presidential Medal of Freedom
For once Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu is speechless!
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81El Día de los Muertos - Mexican Day of the Dead
El Día de los Muertos or, Day of the Dead, is an ancient Mexican holiday that is celebrated on November 1st and 2nd. Even though there are many similarities between El Día de los Muertos and Halloween, this is not the Mexican version of Halloween....
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77T.S. Eliot and Nicholas Ferrar: Time's Timeless Poet and the Timeless Believer at Little Gidding
Sixteenth/eventeenth-century entrepreneur turned religious leader Nicholas Ferrar established a small but influential religious community near London, England. Four centuries later, twentieth-century poet T.S. Eliot was inspired to write about the community in his poem "Little Gidding." Visitors to and writers about the community have increased since Nicholas Ferrar became a highly respected saint in both the Anglican and Episcopal churches in the twentieth century.
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76Bloody Mary - Mary Tudor
Mary Tudor's story begins with King Henry VIII of England. Mary was Henry's eldest child, born to Catherine, the first of his six wives. Mary's brief reign was one of blood & terror.
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76THE HISTORY OF THE COMMONWEALTH GAMES
At its peak in 1922, the British Empire covered 33,670,000 square kilometers; a quarter of the earth’s land surface area. By then the population of the empire was roughly 458 million people. The empire had...
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