The British and the French haven’t seen eye to eye for a long time. Since the Battle of Hastings, actually. (That was in 1066.)
In 1805, a sea battle was fought off the coast of Spain between the British Royal… Read More
During the early 19th century construction of the cathedral of St. Isaac in St. Petersburg, Russia, workers gilded the domes with a gold-mercury amalgam. Sixty workers died of mercury poisoning.