Paradox Interactive have always produced top notch strategy video games. The Swedish company is “responsible” for titles such as Europa Universalis and Hearts of Iron, both of them being perfect games for hardcore strategy fans.
Hearts of Iron 3 will be no different. Scheduled to be released on August 4th, 2009, it is anxiously awaited by [...]
In AD 597 a missionary called Augustine was sent from Rome to England to make the Anglo-Saxons Christians. Many monks came from Rome and many monasteries and churches were built.
Up to then, the Anglo-Saxon language had been only spoken. The monks, who spent most of their time copying manuscripts by hand, wrote it down for [...]
ALFRED (849-901), who became King of Wessex in 871, saved England from conquest by the Vikings. He was not only a fighter but also a teacher and author. He worked very hard and planned every part of his day giving eight hours in turn for study, work and rest.
Since in those days there were no [...]
One of the many puzzles left by early peoples, Stonehenge is a series of stone circles in southern England. The earliest circles were begun nearly 5,000 years ago, that was 200 years before the great pyramids. Stonehenge was probably a temple, but scholars think it was also used as a calendar.
Another theory says that the [...]
Around 55 B.C. the Romans conquered the southern part of Britain. They did not conquer Scotland. They introduced the law as well as the customs of the great empire. They built in Britain a system of very good Roman roads which have survived to this day. In order to protect themselves from the avenging raids [...]
First, there were the Celts who settled in various parts of Europe. The Celts living in Britain were called Britons. Their civilization was that of the Iron Age. The Druids were the priests of the Celts. The Druids were also teachers of history and poetry and were the doctors of the day, making medicines from [...]
The first underground railway ever built was London’s Metropolitan line, built in 1863. Londoners call their underground “the tube”. There are 273 different stations now and the deepest station is Hampstead, 58 meters below the ground. It is also worth mentioning that the London underground is the longest in the world.
Thus, if all the tube [...]