Although the last Timurid of Herāt, Badīʿ al-Zamān, finally fell to the armies of the Uzbek Muḥammad Shaybānī in 1507, the Timurid ruler of Fergana, Ẓahīr al-Dīn Bābur, survived the collapse of the dynasty and established the line of Mughal emperors in India in 1526. The power of Timurids declined…
Over time, numerous WWF superstars would defect to the Alliance, including Test, William Regal, Ivory, and Christian. Former ECW and WCW wrestler Steven Richards would belatedly defect to the Alliance, bringing WCW alumni KroniK with him. In return, Chuck Palumbo and Torrie Wilson defected from The Alliance to the WWF.…
His book, Jamharat al-Nasab (“The Abundance of Kinship”), seems to posit that the people known as “Arabs” (of his time) were all descendants of Ishmael. Who came from Ishmael? Ishmael also had one known daughter, Mahalath or Basemath, the third wife of Esau. Ishmael appeared with Isaac at the burial…
In AD 1026, Mahmud of Ghazni first looted the temple, and then came Afzal Khan, the commander of Ala-ud-din Khilji and later Aurangzeb. It is said that the temple was looted and destroyed as many as seventeen times In 1451, it was desecrated by Mahmud Begada, the Sultan of Gujarat.…
The world’s first photograph made in a camera was taken in 1826 by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce. The photograph was taken from the upstairs windows of Niépce’s estate in the Burgundy region of France. Who started photography? Photography, as we know it today, began in the late 1830s in France. Joseph…
In the early 1940s, when Tennessee Williams was working on his first successful play, The Glass Mengerie, he developed an idea he termed ’plastic theatre, an idea that he believed would launch a new type of theatre, that would move away from what he dismissed as ’typewriter theatre’ by affording…
The progressive educational ideas and practices developed in the United States, especially by John Dewey, were joined with the European tradition after 1900. In 1896 Dewey founded the Laboratory Schools at the University of Chicago to test the validity of his pedagogical theories. Remember that progressivism says that students learn…
Maurice R. Robinson, the founder and chairman of Scholastic Magazines Inc. and a pioneer in the publishing of magazines and books solely for high school students, died Sunday at his home in Pelham, N.Y. He was 86 years old. From his first magazine distributed to high schools in the Pittsburgh…
The invitation in 862 of a “Varangian Rus” Rurik and his brothers to Novgorod “to reign” traditionally is considered to be the beginning of the ancient Russian state. The history of Russia begins with the histories of the East Slavs. The traditional start-date of specifically Russian history is the establishment…
This blanket was made sometime between 1850 and 1885 by the Chilkat, a northern Tlingit tribeTlingit tribeThe Tlingit (/ˈklɪŋkɪt/ or /ˈtlɪŋɡɪt/; also spelled Tlinkit; Russian: Тлинкиты) are indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America. Their language is the Tlingit language (natively Lingít, pronounced [ɬɪ̀nkɪ́tʰ]), in which the…