History

Masada has become a symbol for Israelis of heroic struggle to the very end.

Today, in the Thermopylae ravine, the barrow where the Spartans were buried has a stone tablet engraved with an inscription by the Greek poet Symonides: “Go tell the Spartans, thou who passest by, That here, obedient to their laws, we lie.”

The Sumer based their mathematical system on the number 60. As early as 3000 B.C., it was common to use multiplication, division, and exponentiation.

Igor Kurchatov became the scientific director of the Soviet scientific program.

The first elected president of Jamestown was Edward Maria Wingfield.

By the 1630s, Jamestown settlement was dominating the region of the eastern Virginia Peninsula.

The original name of the city is unknown.

On Xerxes’ orders, Leonidas’ body was desecrated-decapitated and then crucified.

The most characteristic buildings of the Sumer civilization were ziggurats.

The theory with agents clarifies numerous threads in the Dyatlov Pass tragedy.