The battle of Badon Hill was one of
twelve legendary battles from King
Arthur cycle.

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THE BRITONS

The British warriors who fought at Badon had come to call themselves Combrogi (or Cymry), meaning “fellow-countrymen” or “comrades”. The term “Welsh” (meaning “ foreigner”) would have been insulting to these native British warriors.
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The Jesuit Jean-Paul Gozani visited the Kaifeng Jewish community in the early 18th century. He reported what he saw and heard in a letter to his superior. The letter serves as an interesting example of the west's contemporary negative view of foreign culture and religion.

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She was his Helen of Troy; their tumultuous relationship would span almost twenty years. The characters in what would be an interesting play are Irish poet William Butler Yeats and politicial activist Maude Gonne. They met in 1889, he was an up and coming poet and she was an artist that was finding a voice in Irish nationalism. Both were in their early twenties. He proposed to her two years later, and she refused him, sighting his lack of political activism and refusal to become Roman Catholic...

When Louis XVI died at the guillotine on January 21, 1793 it was said people dipped their handkerchiefs in his blood. I had always considered it more myth than legend- until I did some research. I had to look up the word- calabash. It is a hollowed out gourd that is used to hold small keepsakes; a strange item to hold the blood of a king, but that is exactly what it contains. Writing on the gourd claims that a Parisian by the name of Maximilien Bourdaloue dipped his handkerchief in the blood...

She is called the most ‘kissed face in history’, but we know her as Rescue Annie. Most of us will at one time or another meet her in a First Aid class, and be forced to test our CPR techniques on her for a possible emergency. She will be lying there all too lifelike but silent. But she does have a story: she is the face of a woman who lived and died in the nineteenth century.
Nicknamed L’Inconnue de la Seine, she was pulled out of the Seine River in the 1880’s, as a possible suicide...