Fascism was a far-right, authoritarian ultranationalist ideology that emerged from Europe in WWI and ended with WWII. The regimes and results of Mussolini and Hitler sealed the fate of another failed experiment in governance.

The great pyramids of Giza, near modern-day Cairo, Egypt, were built for Pharaoh Khufu with the belief that the king’s body and supplies would ascend together into heaven.

After the Suez Canal opened up new routes for colonial expansion, New Imperialism was a period famed British poet Rudyard Kipling labeled “The White Man’s Burden.”

The Hindenburg Disaster occurred while attempting to moor over Lakehurst, New Jersey. After flying from Germany, the largest airship ever built burst into flames and crashed to the ground, killing or injuring many passengers and ground crew.

Mount Everest is the highest mountain above sea level at more than 29 thousand feet tall. Split by the border of China and Nepal, nearly 7,000 summits have been recorded with more than 300 deaths.

The Middle Passage was a period from the 16th century until 1865, when 12.5 million Africans were forced into unbearable living conditions aboard slave ships destined for the Caribbean and the Americas.

The Puritans were a group of religious zealots as a response to King Henry VIII’s newly-formed Church of England. Puritans faced friction as their numbers multiplied, forcing them to emigrate to Holland and later New England.