My Purple World

Dear Blogger, Thank you for being relatively user-friendly when I was new to blogging. Thanks for never giving me any humongous problems. Bu...

The most important thing I learned this year was about Martin Luther. It is interesting to see how the life of a man who lived hundreds of y...

“In 1688-89 the English people drove King James II from the throne in the ‘Glorious Revolution.’ This peaceable (and apparently bloodless) r...

Though the Thirty Year’s War started out as a religious war, it was inevitable that it would end in a mess of politics. “In 1618, a local Bo...

The Protestant Reformation could never have happened if not for three key factors that paved its way. These three events were the main set-u...

King Louis XIV was born on September 5, 1638. “He ascended to the throne a few months before his fifth birthday, but did not assume actual p...

Early Paris Paris, originally a small fishing island, was founded over 2,000 years ago by the Gauls of the Parisii tribe. However, Rome had ...