In June of 1791, King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette attempted to escape the French Revolution under the cloak of night and disguise. Still, they were recognized due to the King’s portrait featured on French currency, ultimately leading to their execution.

The Seven Wonders of the ancient world are structures with evidence or documentation of early civilization’s advanced and bewildering abilities for construction, during a technologically primitive time period.

The Aztec Empire of Mesoamerica culminated in Tenochtitlán, a civilization that employed sophisticated irrigation and agriculture practices. In 1519, Hernan Cortés would eradicate the city with superior weaponry and foreign disease.

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.