The Commonwealth of Virginia's Information Technology Symposium (COVITS) kicked off yesterday in Richmond, Va., with a reception and technology award presentation that honored the most innovative ...

Rising prices in Paris brought bread riots. By 1789 France was broke. The nobility refused to pay more taxes, and the peasants simply couldn't. Even the opulent King Louis XVI, fonder of hunting ...

Using a diverse range of sources, Robert H. Blackman reconstructs key constitutional debates, from the initial convocation of the Estates General in Versailles in May 1789, to the National Assembly ...

In May 1789, King Louis XVI called a meeting of the Estates-General, to try and find a solution to France’s financial problems. It brought together 1200 delegates from the clergy (the First ...

The first recorded attempt at creating a system to organise the elements was when Antoine Lavoisier published his table of elements in 1789. In 'Traite Elementaire de Chimie', Lavoisier listed 33 ...

Campbell, James 2013. The Death of Frank Wilson: Race, Crime, and Punishment in Post-Civil War Pennsylvania. American Nineteenth Century History, Vol. 14, Issue. 3, p. 305. Pashman, Howard 2013. The ...