While leading Impressionists Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro spent much time studying Turner’s paintings while in exile in London during the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71), Pissarro later ...

It all started, bizarrely, around 700 miles away - with the Franco-Prussian War. France declared war on Prussia in July 1870 - primarily in an attempt to reassert its dominant position in ...

Mother's Day in the U.S. is celebrated on the second Sunday of May, while in Mexico it's celebrated annually on May 10. The modern Mother's Day originated with Ann Jarvis's efforts to promote ...

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Europe then underwent two centuries of violence: the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, the revolutions of 1848 and the Franco-Prussian War, before pitching into the conflagrations of the ...

One could broaden it further and argue that the period from 1848 to 1871—bracketed by the liberal revolutions and the end of the Franco-Prussian War—was marked by a series of violent shocks ...

Russia's President Vladimir Putin ordered a three-day ceasefire to start at midnight on 8 May to coincide with a World War Two victory parade in Moscow ... there have been changes not reflected in the ...

the LoC today represents the de facto dividing line between the territories administered by India and Pakistan The line was confirmed after the 1971 war and is based on the Karachi Agreement of ...

The tapestry is removed from Bayeux once again during the Franco-Prussian War - but it is moved back two years later 1944: The Gestapo removed the tapestry to the Louvre in Paris - just days ...