there are 100 illustrated topic panels on modern history and each panel contains 10 key facts. Facts like these:rn* When gold was discovered in Australia 1851, fourtune seekers helped to triple the country's population in just nine years.rn* Im 1837, 18 year-old Victoria became queen and reigned for 63 years- the longest reign in British history.rn* In the 1980s the JApanese government was roc…
There 100 illustrated topic panels on Ancient History and each panel contains 10 key facts. Facts like these:rn* The Emperor Trajan went to a gladiator contest that lasted 117 days and involved 10.000 gladiators. rn* Catching a bull by the horns and leaping over it ( leaping) was an important Minoan religious rite.rn* Legend has it that Cleopatra had herself delivered to Caesar in a carpet. Wha…
The murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary, in 1914, provided the spark that ignited the most destructive war the world had ever seen. find out about the soldiers' terrifying experiences in the trenches, and the vast array of deadly new weapons. Discover how the war affected every corner of the globe, and how it provoked revolutions and toppled empires. Stunningly illustrated wit…
Bhinneka Tunggal Ika - it is various, and yet it is one. This mystical saying of a 14th century Javanese poet is profoundly appropriate as the motto for the Indonesian state. It is the variety of Indonesia that gives it is common character. Each region replicates, in its own way, the diversities between mountail and valley, upstream and downstream large (mainland) islands and small ones, forest…