or LOGIN

ENCYCLOPEDIA

SearchExplore

Family History Project
Build your family tree

History Study Stop
The ultimate revision zone

Hidden House History
Uncover the secrets of your home

Photos for the Future
Share the past, for the future

CITIES OF THE UNDERWORLD: Catacombs Of Death (Paris)

Coming Soon

This is replaced by the Flash content. Place your alternate content here and users without the Flash plugin or with Javascript turned off will see this. Content here allows you to leave out noscript tags. Include a link to bypass the detection if you wish.

Demob Happy

Coming Soon

DECODING THE PAST: Secrets of the Dollar Bill

Coming Soon

universal

In philosophy, a property that is instantiated by all the individual things of a specific class: for example, all red things instantiate ‘redness’. Many philosophical debates have centred on the status of universals, including the medieval debate between nominalism and realism.

2 March 1970
Rhodesia declares the Universal Declaration of Independence – breaking from Britain to become an independent republic, under the leadership of Ian Smith.

2 June 1912
Carl Laemmle merges his movie studio, the Independent Motion Picture Company, with several others, creating Hollywood's first major studio, Universal.

30 October 1905
In response to the 1905 Revolution, Tsar Nicholas II issues the October Manifesto, which pledged to introduce civil liberties, universal male suffrage and the creation of a Duma.

11 November 1965
Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith proclaims UDI - a Universal Declaration of Independence from Britain.

10 December 1948
The United Nations General Assembly adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.