Thomas Ehretsmann started his career as a comic book artist in 1998. Subsequently he moved into illustration. His clients include many European publishers and magazines: Elle, Flammarion, Gallimard, Hachette, Nathan, Delcourt, Milan, Syros... In 2009, he studied with the great Norwegian painter Odd Nerdrum. His most prestigious award to date came in March 2011 when he won a gold medal at the Society of Illustrators for "Muder Inc.". In 2016, his painting "Vacuum 2" was selected for the BP…

@thepresidentguy Today commemorates Veterans Day. The holiday’s origin comes from the conclusion of World War I when fighting officially stopped with a ceasefire between Allied nations and Germany on this day in 1918. The following year, Woodrow Wilson proclaimed this day as Armistice Day saying, “To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country’s service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of…

The most popular Mother's Day gift is a card.

After World War I, America was supposed to lead the fight against colonialism. What happened?

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1978 was divided, one half awarded to Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa "for his basic inventions and discoveries in the area of low-temperature physics", the other half jointly to Arno Allan Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson "for their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation"

Robert Smalls of South Carolina was an enslaved ship’s pilot for the Confederacy when he decided to seize a transport vessel and trade it for his freedom.

Treaty of Versailles, peace document signed at the end of World War I by the Allied and associated powers and by Germany in the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles, France, on June 28, 1919; it took force on January 10, 1920. A brief treatment of the Treaty of Versailles follows. For full treatment, see international relations: Peacemaking, 1919–22. When the German government asked U.S. Pres. Woodrow Wilson to arrange a general armistice in October 1918, it declared that…