Sahil Gupta

The Empire of Alexander the Great stretched from the Adriatic Sea to the Indus River. Alexander the Great set out to conquer the Persian Empire in 334 BC. He defeated Persian King Darius III and became the King. In 332 BC, Alexander started the conquest over Egypt. He was declared the new ‘Master of the […]

Napoleon Bonaparte was born in 1769, at Casa Buonaparte, in Ajaccio, Corsica. His birth name was Napoleone di Buonaparte. He changed the name when he moved to France. He was a French military and political leader. He received a military education. He led France through a series of wars known as the Napoleonic Wars. In

Malala Yousafzai, the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, is from Pakistan. She hopes to pursue a career in politics after finishing her education in the UK. Malala currently lives with her father, mother and two brothers in Birmingham, attending a local school. She was named after a famous Afghani poet and warrior named

Mother Teresa was a nun who devoted her life to help the poor, sick, needy people. Mother Teresa or Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu worked in Kolkata, India. She was born in 1910, in Macedonia. She decided to devote her life to the service of God at an early age. When she turned 18, Agnes joined the

Barack Obama was the first African-American President. He was 47 years old when he became the 44th President of America in 2009. Barack Hussein Obama II was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on August 4, 1961. His father was a Kenyan. He left the family when Barack was two years old. Barack Obama was raised by

Jon Brower Minnoch was the heaviest man in medical history. Minnoch’s top weight in March 1978 was 635 kilograms. When Minnoch was to be hospitalised, it took a dozen firemen and an improvised stretcher to move him from his home to a ferry-boat. When he arrived at the hospital, it took 13 people just to

The Globe Theatre, also known as the Shakespeare Globe Theatre, was the play house where Shakespeare performed many of his greatest plays. Shakespeare’s first play to be performed in London at the Globe Theatre was ‘Julius Caesar’, in 1599. It was built from oak, deal and stolen playhouse frames with a capacity of 3000 people.

People live in Kibbutz in Israel. It is a unique form of Israeli collective community. A member of a Kibbutz is called a Kibbutznik. A Kibbutz was traditionally based on agriculture. The first Kibbutz, established in 1909, was Degania. In 2017, there were 270 Kibbutz in Israel. Today, some Kibbutzim have been privatised and changes

The Ashanti is an ethnic group of the Akans in Ghana. It is a new nation which is more than 50 years old. The Ashanti people live in central Ghana in western Africa, 300 kilometres. away from the coast. Ghana, which was previously the Gold Coast, was a British colony until 1957. Ashanti is in

Damnoen Saduak is the largest and most famous floating market in Thailand. It is about 100 kilometres southwest of Bangkok. Damnoen a Saduak Floating Market opens every day. Once a person is in the market, he or she has a choice of walking along the banks of the canals or hiring a boat to cruise

The Night of the Radishes is an annual event celebrated on the 23rd of December in the city of Oaxaca, Mexico. This event originated in the colonial period when radishes were introduced by the Spanish. The Night of the Radishes is dedicated to the carving of oversized radishes for the competition. The artists work to

The Mona Lisa is a half-length portrait of a figure believed to be the wife of Francesco del Giocondo. Since 1797, the Mona Lisa has been on display at one of the most famous museums in the world, Paris’ the Louvre Museum. The Mona Lisa is considered to be the most famous painting in the

Break Dancing is an athletic style of street dance. It started in the South Bronx of New York in the mid-1970’s and then moved west to Los Angeles. This dance-form when street gangs used Break Dancing as a way to battle without fist-fighting or using weapons. It later evolved as part of the hip-hop movement.

The White Nights Festival is celebrated in St Petersburg, Russia. St Petersburg is well-known for the natural phenomenon ‘white nights’. It is an annual international arts festival celebrated during the season of the midnight sun. It consists of a series of classical ballet, opera and music events. St Petersburg’s Palace Square becomes a stage for

The first alphabet appeared in the Middle East, in an area called the Levant. There are very old stones, from the Levant with writing, that are neither pictures nor letters. It’s a mix of the two. It is believed that this happened sometime in 8 BCE. These very early letters were brought to the Greeks