#British Empire

Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama Benjamin Franklin was never president, but he held many other important jobs, including that of minister to France during the Revolutionary War. Franklin was in Paris in 1778, when he received a letter from a stranger supposedly named Charles de

Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama What’s left of the British Empire is no longer a monarchy, technically. The government is run as a democracy, although the British have retained the royal family anyway, and the Queen has many duties. They are mostly ceremonial, but she (or any other

Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama Gibraltar is a curious place. It is a small peninsula at the south corner of Spain, at the point where the Atlantic Ocean meets the Mediterranean Sea. Morocco is only eight miles across the water. Gibraltar is a British colony, one of the few remnants of

Source: Futility Closet Doubtful but interesting: In June 1814 two British warships marauded Scituate Harbor in Massachusetts, burning and capturing American vessels. Militia member Simeon Bates fired cannon shots after them from his lighthouse on Cedar Point. When a ship returned in September,

Author: Charles Koch Foundation / Source: Big Think Is war with China inevitable? The U.S. must stop basing its foreign policy on 2,400 year old schools of though. Brutality and warfare have followed humankind wherever we have gone. Throughout the years there have been epic battles between