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Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) was an Italian composer of around 40 operas, including the comic operas The Italian Girl in Algiers and The Barber of Seville. Rossini championed melody and beautiful singing over operatic drama, rattling out...

La Doncella, "The maiden", one of the three mummies of Inca children sacrificed c. 1500 and found in 1999 near the top of the Llullaillaco volcano, on the Argentina–Chile border. Museum of High Altitude Archaeology, Salta, Argentina.

The consequences of the Second World War (1939-45) were many and varied. Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and military-dominated Japan were all defeated. Many occupied countries were liberated and regained their freedom while others were obliged...

In 1533 CE the Inca Empire was the largest in the world. It extended across western South America from Quito in the north to Santiago in the south. However, the lack of integration of conquered peoples into that empire, combined with a civil...

Agriculture, like most other areas of working life, was greatly affected by the machines invented during the Industrial Revolution. Agriculture in Britain and elsewhere had made leaps forward in the 18th century, and its success released...

Transatlantic Zeppelins carried passengers in relative luxury between Germany and New York or Rio de Janeiro during the 1920s and 1930s. The airships Graf Zeppelin and Hindenburg crossed the Atlantic in two or three days, faster than contemporary...

Any visitor to Rome will want to see and explore the popular historical and cultural sites - the Colosseum, the Forum, the Trevi Fountain and, of course, the Vatican. But a large part of the city's ancient history actually lies underground...

Over the course of several millennia, textiles were the primary form of aesthetic expression and communication for the diverse cultures that developed throughout the desert coasts and mountain highlands of the Andean region. Worn as garments...

The Inca Empire (c. 13th–16th century CE) expanded from a small highland kingdom centered in Cusco into the largest pre-Columbian empire in the Americas. Emerging under leaders such as Manco Cápac and later consolidated by Pachacuti Inca...

Josef Mengele (1911-79) was a Nazi SS doctor who performed horrific pseudo-scientific experiments on detainees in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Mengele escaped to South America and this photograph dates to 1956 when he was in Argentina.