Humans in History
Saint Birgitta (Saint Bridget of Sweden) was the most celebrated saint of Sweden and one of the six patron saints of Europe.
Jan Kochanowski was a great Polish poet. He was born in Sycyna, a small village in Poland. He studied at the University of Königsberg (East Prussia) and at Padua University (Italy).
Historical records show that the St. Margaretha’s Church in Germany was a family burial place for male descendants from the House of Königsfeld from 1546 to 1749.
Prince Branciforte Barresi was a Sicilian arts patron and benefactor. He was the Prince of Pietraperzia and Marchese of Militello and was born in 1575.
In 1997, an international archaeological expedition discovered an ancient kurgan in east Kazakhstan near the village of Berel in the Bukhtarma valley dating back to the Saka period in the early 3rd century BC.
Jörg Jenatsch was an important political leader during the Thirty Years War in Graubünden (Grisons), now in present-day Switzerland.
James McGovern was an American World War II fighter ace that died in a plane crash in Laos on May 6, 1954.
On March 12th, 1948, a charter flight crashed in the Wrangell Mountains of Alaska.
Do you look like your mother or your father? Perhaps, you look like both of them or maybe you don’t look like your parents at all.
Differences in the outward physical features of people from around the world make us appear very uniquely distinct from each other.
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