Encyclopedia of Trivia

Italian painter of the Early Renaissance, Sandro Botticelli, was born at Florence in 1444 in a house in the Via Nueva, Borg' Ognissan...

The British protectorate of Bechuanaland declared its independence on September 30, 1966, and became the Republic of Botswana.  Botswana wa...

Born on November 24, 1955 in Heswall, Cheshire, England , Ian Botham is widely regarded as one of the greatest all-rounders in the history o...

The Ancient Assyrians , Chinese and Egyptians all established botanical gardens in which they grew various plants and herbs for medica...

When Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond, the head of the rival House of Lancaster, landed at Milford Haven, Wales. Richard III  hastened to mee...

The American colonists had long been resentful of British taxation policies, especially the Stamp Act and the Townshend Acts. These policie...

John Winthrop, a puritan lawyer from Suffolk in England , founded on September 7, 1630 a large settlement on a peninsula at the mouth o...