The contradictions and ironies of the Terror, when the guillotine bloodily ruled France, are well described by Fife in his part- ...

On April 20, 1792, France declared war on Austria. In 1836 the Territory of Wisconsin was established by Congress. In 1889 Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau, Austria. In 1902 scientists Marie and Pi… ...

Pakistan is in crisis. Overcoming this will mean completely rethinking long-held assumptions about what the country is meant to be.

In 1792, France Made A New Calender Based On Science and Secularism – And Nobody Liked It The revolutionary new calendar had a 10-day week. It wasn't exactly a people pleaser.

ARTILLERY OF THE PAST; ITS DEVELOPMENT IN FRANCE SINCE THE YEAR 1792. NAPOLEON'S INNOVATIONS--RESULTS AT VARIOUS BATTLES--GERMAN ACTIVITY ON THE FRONTIER. May 7, 1888 The New York Times Archives ...

__1792: __It's 1 Vendémiaire of An I in the French Revolutionary Calendar, the first day of fall and the first day of the first month of the first year of the First Republic of France. It's the ...

Poker, as life, will go on. Since France is now off the map, two new events have been scheduled in March to expand the European Poker Tour circuit: Warsaw (Poland) and Dortmund (Germany).

France and Mali on Friday ruled out any talks with jihadist groups responsible for repeated attacks on Malian and foreign forces, rejecting calls to bring them to the negotiating table.

French prosecutors opened an investigation on Friday into written death threats posted along with bullets to two news outlets and several magistrates, officials said.