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Architecture is a way of understanding the world: recording its history, sharing its culture, and connecting with people.

Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring shocked the American public when it was published in the summer of 1962.

December 16, 1971 marked the end of the Bangladesh Liberation War, a short-lived conflict between India and Pakistan.

The years 1940–1949 were ones of continuous horror for the Greek people.

Süleyman, who would be known to the west as “the Magnificent,” began his reign as sultan of the Ottoman Empire in September 1520.

Liu Bang rose from obscurity to be crowned emperor of China 2215 years ago on the 28th of February, 202 BCE.

March 3, 1857 marked the unofficial beginning of the so-called Second Opium War (officially 1856-1860).

On July 21, 1969, American astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first human being to set foot on an entirely different world.

The region of western Ukraine makes up just a small percentage of the territory and population of present-day Ukraine, but has historically played an outsized role in the 20th century struggles for control of eastern Europe.

World War II was a total war—a mobilization of nearly all human and natural resources.