Our universe is composed of celestial bodies such as stars, planets, asteroids, and comets. All of these celestial bodies possess specific structural characteristics. They can also organize themselves ...

In the Middle Ages, the imaginary is an integral part of reality. The world of that time cannot be conceived otherwise. Within this panorama, both real and wonderful, plants play a major role in ...

The First White Terror during the French Revolution was a violent anti-Jacobin reaction during the Thermidorian Reaction (1794–1795). After Robespierre’s fall on ...

Louis XV (1710-1774) was King of France from 1715 to 1774. Great-grandson of Louis XIV, he succeeded him on the throne at the age of just five: power was entrusted to the regent Philippe d’Orléans ...

Louis XIII (1601-1643) was a King of France from the Bourbon dynasty, nicknamed “the Just.” He reigned from 1610 to 1643. The eldest son of Henry IV, Louis XIII succeeded his father at the age of nine ...

The Parker Solar Probe, launched on August 12, 2018, is the fastest man-made object in space. It travels at 393,000 km/h (244,000 mph), fast enough to cover the distance between Paris and Tokyo in 1 ...

Over nine hundred years ago, thousands of Europeans set out to reclaim the Holy Sepulchre — a term that symbolically referred to Jerusalem and the surrounding Holy Land. Since then, many myths and ...

In Arabic, Islam means “submission to God,” and a Muslim is a person “devoted to God.” Like Jews and Christians, Muslims are monotheists. They believe there is only one God who created the world and ...

Menander (Gr. Μένανδρος Menandros, 342–291 BC) was an ancient Greek poet, the principal representative of New Comedy and comedy of characters. He hailed from a family that provided him with a careful ...

The Nemes is the most iconic headdress of the pharaohs, worn from the Old Kingdom to the Ptolemaic period. It is well-known to the public through numerous representations, notably the golden funerary ...

The term “Man in the Moon” is a common reference to a pareidolic figure resembling a human face, which is easily visible on the surface of the Moon from Earth, especially during the full moon, ...

The rusalka is a character in East Slavic mythology, presenting one of the most varied images in folk mysticism. The perceptions of rusalkas prevalent in the Russian North, the Volga region, the Urals ...