Learning History

As an ardent student of history, I always say that  history is bound to be repeated by those who do not learn from them.

Even in today's day and age, this is a very good reason for studying history mainly so that we don't let the evils of prejudice plague our hearts and minds again.

Interesting Historical events: 

Spice and Silk trade 3000 BC
Trojan War 1260 BC
Rise of Rome 700 BC
Battle of Thermopylae 480 BC
Alexander the Great 356 BC
Spartacus 100 BC
Julius Caesar 100 BC
Antony and Cleopatra 50 BC
Ancient Britain - the Druids 43 BC
Fall of Rome 476 AD
King Arthur 600 AD
The Crusades 1095 AD
Rise of Mongols 1200 AD
Scottish War of Independence 1300 AD
Incan Empire 1438 AD
The War of the Roses 1455 AD
Mughal conquests 1526 AD
El Dorado 1600 AD
Rise of Shivaji 1635 AD
American Revolution 1765 AD
The French Revolution 1789 AD
Industrial Revolution 1800 AD
Rise of Britain 1800 AD
Battle of Trafalgar 1805 AD
The First Opium War 1840 AD
California Gold Rush 1848 AD
Britain vs Rest of Europe 1900 AD
Gold vs Silver standard 1900 AD
Russo Japanese War 1904 AD
Japanese occupation of Korea 1910 AD
World War I 1914 AD
Armenian Genocide 1914 AD
Russian Revolution 1917 AD
Rise of the RSS 1925 AD
Second Sino-Japanese War 1937 AD
World War II 1939 AD
Holoucast 1945 AD
Partition Of India 1947 AD
Gandhi vs Godse 1949 AD
Unification of princely states 1951 AD
Cold War 1953 AD
Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 AD
India vs Pakistan wars 1965 AD
The Six Day War 1967 AD
Bangladesh Independence 1971 AD
Watergate 1972 AD
Afghanistan wars 1978 AD
Unification of Germany 1989 AD
Sierra Leone Civil War 1991 AD

Prayer for Humanity

Men have been killed because of one reason or another throughout the ages. Disease counted for a major chunk in the earlier ages with war not behind.

Although we have learnt to defeat disease, war remains an immortal enemy for now.

It still exists because there is still hatred in the hearts and ignorance in the minds of men. The thoughts of superiority of religion, nation, race, culture, language,intellect, gender, social strata still keeps us divided.

Since disease was defeated by Science, I look towards it for solution to this problem as well. I can't but be afraid of how long we are to be pestered by it.

As the race for the survival of this planet and Earthlings nears its perilous end and we come up with ingenious solutions for it (I am looking at you Elon Musk), I pray and hope that we leave all these differences and thoughts behind and unite together for survival as nothing unites as a common ambition.