LEGO | History, Evolution, Business Transformation, Iconic Toys, Plural, & Facts
Building history In 1932 Ole Kirk Christiansen (sometimes spelled Kristiansen) began making wooden toys in Billund, Denmark. But in…
Rabulist riots | Rabulist riots | Protest, Stockholm, Sweden
Table of Contents Table of Contents Ask Anything Rabulist riots, (1838), in Swedish history, wave of popular demonstrations…
Berlin Conference | 1884, Result, Summary, & Impact on Africa
Berlin Conference, a series of negotiations (November 15, 1884–February 26, 1885) at Berlin, in which the major European…
Warsaw Uprising | Summary, Dates, & Monument
Warsaw Uprising, (August-October 1944), insurrection in Warsaw during World War II by which Poles unsuccessfully tried to oust…
Stockholm 1912 Olympic Games | Olympic Records, Sweden, Athletics, & Summer Olympics
Table of Contents Table of Contents Ask Anything Stockholm 1912 Olympic Games, athletic festival held in Stockholm that…
5 Landmark Buildings in Copenhagen, Denmark
Table of Contents Table of Contents Ask Anything Copenhagen’s history reaches back to at least the 10th century,…
1986 West Berlin discotheque bombing | Background, Perpetrators, Deaths, & Trial
1986 West Berlin discotheque bombing, attack carried out on April 5, 1986, in West Berlin, in which Libyan…
Sir Isaiah Berlin | British Historian, Political Philosopher & Social Theorist
Sir Isaiah Berlin (born June 6, 1909, Riga, Latvia, Russian Empire [now in Latvia]—died November 5, 1997, Oxford,…
Hans Christian Ørsted | Magnetic Fields, Electromagnetism, Electrodynamics
Table of Contents Table of Contents Ask Anything Hans Christian Ørsted (born August 14, 1777, Rudkøbing, Denmark—died March…