One of the most trag­ic dates in the his­to­ry of Rus­sia. On this day, the Great Patri­ot­ic War began. And from that mome…

George Wash­ing­ton was born in Vir­ginia on Feb­ru­ary 11, 1731, accord­ing to the then-used Julian cal­en­dar. In 1752, how…

Inde­pen­dence Day of Mex­i­co is a hol­i­day that is always cel­e­brat­ed in a big way. As ear­ly as Sep­tem­ber 15, the coun­try…

Anniver­sary of the sign­ing on July 1, 1867, of the British North Amer­i­ca Act, unit­ing the three provinces into the si…

Every year on August 8, Ger­many cel­e­brates the offi­cial pub­lic hol­i­day of one city in the coun­try, name­ly the city of…

Colum­bus Day is a nation­al hol­i­day in many coun­tries of the Amer­i­c­as and else­where, and a fed­er­al hol­i­day in the Unit…

Memo­r­i­al Day (orig­i­nal­ly known as Dec­o­ra­tion Day) is a fed­er­al hol­i­day in the Unit­ed States for hon­or­ing and mourn­ing…

A res­o­lu­tion was adopt­ed “On the for­ma­tion of the all-Union Peo­ple’s Com­mis­sari­at of Inter­nal Affairs”, with­in which …

Exhi­bi­tion “Rus­sia”. About russ­ian mar­kets, regions and eco­nom­ics.

In the sum­mer of 1974, in the vicin­i­ty of the city of Xi’an in the north of Shanxi province, local peas­ants were digg…