Documents That Changed The World - page 1

Alaska Purchase Check After many years of negotiations with the Tsar, the United States buys Russia’s huge frozen chunk of North Aerica for two cents per acre, leaving some Americans… Keep Reading

First printed as the Oxford Gazette, and later moving to became the London Gazette, the English-language broadsheet was being read years before the term “newspaper” was coined – and it… Keep Reading

A Russian count pens what may be the largest book manuscript ever created, but his wife is the only one capable of deciphering the furiously written script, and she helps… Keep Reading

As the biggest and finest ship of its day, RMS Titanic measured 882 feet, 9 inches long with a maximum breadth of 92 feet, 6 inches and a total height… Keep Reading

A visionary reformer recognizes the need for improved public transportation to and from London, and his relentless campaign to build a subterranean iron road beneath the teeming city finally becomes… Keep Reading

Although the first invention occurred much earlier in China and Korea, the genesis of modern printing by means of a printing press using metal movable type is rightly traced to… Keep Reading

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)  may have been the greatest writer in the history of the English language, but that reputation never would have come about without the effort of his two… Keep Reading

Activists from different nationalities and backgrounds work together for two years to devise an unprecedented universal declaration of human rights that will transcend parochial political, religious, cultural. And ideological beliefs… Keep Reading

Drafted in the language of the Enlightenment By Thomas Jefferson between 11 June and 28th June 1776, the Declaration of Independence formally dissolves Great Britain’s political control over American colonies,… Keep Reading