On July 25, 1909, French aviator Louis Blériot successfully flew across the English Channel. Louis Blériot, Birth Centenary Issued by Monaco in 2022 Designer and engraver: Pierre Albuisson ...

On July 14 of that year, a Paris mob – hungry from a poor harvest and angry at the king and government for their suffering – stormed the Bastille prison, ...

The Rosetta Stone is a black granodiorite stele inscribed with a decree by King Ptolemy V Epiphanes. The decree, written in  54 lines of Greek, 32 lines of ...