The British noticed the cheetah as early as their arrival at the Mughal court. Ralph Fitch, who visited Agra and Fatehpur Sikri during Akbar’s reign, records that the Emperor had at the two cities “as they doe credibly report, one thousand Elephants, thirty thousand Horses, one thousand and four hundred tame Deere, eight hundred Concubines: such store of Ounces, Tygres, …
A four-hundred-year-old body tasked with protecting the French language has threatened to sue the government unless it removes English words like “surname” from the country's new biometric identity cards. French citizens possess both passports and ID cards, the latter of which was amended last year to include both French and English translations of all the fields, such as “name”, “address” …
Since the 17th century, tulip mania has become a byword for the irrationality of financial bubbles. Last week, Nifty Gateway, a specialist online marketplace for nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, held an auction that included a computer-generated illustration by digital artist Mike Winkelmann, known as Beeple, whose JPG collage “Everydays — The First 5000 Days,” was sold online by Christie’s earlier …
Anti-racism activists tore down a statue of Napoleon's empress Josephine and another colonialist figure in the overseas French territory of Martinique, the latest test of President Emmanuel Macron's vow not to erase controversial monuments. A statue of Josephine de Beauharnais, who was born to a wealthy colonial family on the island and later became Napoleon's first wife and empress, was …
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