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Claude Monet is a French painter known for his contribution to the Impressionist movement.
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American musician who had a decisive influence on the avant-garde of his time. Influenced by Zen, Cage often used silences in his scores as another element of musical language, giving sounds a time-dependent entity.
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The 20th century saw the bloodiest wars in our history. In the modern history of humanity there are two known "World Wars." The First World War (1914-1918) where the Triple Entente fought against the Triple Alliance. -
World War I, also known as the Great War, was a global military conflict, albeit centred in Europe, which began on 28 July 1914 and ended on 11 November 1918, when Germany accepted the terms of the armistice.
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Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as president of the Soviet Union. The reforms of ‘perestroika’ were not enough to appease the democratic desires of a people who decided to break the structure of the world's second largest power. -
After a decade of preparations, the euro was introduced on 1 January 1999: for the first three years it was an ‘invisible’ currency, used only for accounting purposes and electronic payments. -
On 1 January 1999 the new currency started circulating, 96% of ATMs in the euro area were dispensing euro banknotes on 3 January 1999 and one week after the launch, more than half of all cash transactions were in euro.
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Nineteen terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners on 11 September 2001 and crashed two of them into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, and one into the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. A fourth plane crashed in Pennsylvania. -
Nineteen terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners on 11 September 2001 and crashed two of them into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, and one into the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. A fourth plane crashed in Pennsylvania.