The East India Company lost direct control of India to the British Crown following the Revolt of 1857 (Sepoy Mutiny). Queen Victoria nominated James Wilson as the Finance Member of the Indian Council ...

There are a significant number of words, phrases and acronyms that appear when talking about race and ethnicity which often change depending on the context of the conversation. Language is ...

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The show takes its viewers right back to the Wild West of America in the year 1857 and explores the hefty violence between Natives, pioneers, Mormon soldiers and the U.S. government. It’s a ...

The events of the Mountain Meadows Massacre, which took place in early September 1857, and came to their ... a back-to-basics programme of Old Testament-influenced morality; his followers were ...

(Photo by Werner Forman/Universal Images Group/Getty Images) Archaeological discoveries and the study of written sources, such as Merneptah's Stele, have shed light on the history of both halves of ...

Created by The Revenant's screenplay writer, Mark Smith, the show follows a fictionalized tale of the real-life Utah War of 1857. Various groups like the Mormons, the Paiutes, and the US government ...

The service always includes one or more psalms. These ancient prayers, taken from the Old Testament, reflect the full range of human emotions and experiences; from the depths of anger, resentment, and ...

The New Testament uses Peter 178 times, Simon Peter 29 times, Simon (speaking of Peter) 17 times, Cephas nine times, and Simeon (again speaking of Peter) twice in Acts 15:14 and 2 Peter 1:1. Peter ...

When U.S. Presidents are sworn into office on Inauguration Day, they typically—though not always—take their oaths with a hand on a Bible. When President-elect Donald Trump was first sworn into ...