History & Society
![Person paying with a credit card using a credit card terminal. Cashless payment, credit card reader](jpg/person-paying-with-credit-card-cashless-payment0d31.jpg)
Many economists believe that consumer preferences, competitive pressures on businesses, profit seeking by banks, and government policies designed to facilitate cashless transactions will soon lead to at least a few cashless societies.
![Artist interpretation of a Space meteoroid impact. Meteor impact. Asteroid, End of the world, danger, destruction, dinosaur extinct, Judgement Day, Planet Earth, Doomsday Predictions, comet](jpg/artist-interpretation-space-meteoroid-impact-meteor-world0d31.jpg)
Religious leaders, scientists, and even a hen (or so it seemed) have been making predictions for the end of the world almost as long as the world has been around.
Editor's Picks
![Indian hijras participate in a religious procession in Gandhinagar, India, some 30 kilometers from Ahmedabad, on March 22, 2017. Hijra is a term used in South Asia which refers to transgender individuals who are born male. (gender identity, gender expression)](jpg/hijras-transgender-religious-procession-gandhinagar-india9a9f.jpg)
![Ancient Olympic games. infographic, equestrian events, pentathlon, running events, boxing, wrestling, pankration, sports. SPOTLIGHT VERSION](jpg/infographic-ancient-olympic-games9a9f.jpg)
![Battle of Bosworth Field](jpg/illustration-richard-iii-battle-of-bosworth-field9a9f.jpg)
![The Castillo, a Toltec-style pyramid, rises 79 feet (24 meters) above the plaza at Chichen Itza in Yucatan state, Mexico. The pyramid was built after invaders conquered the ancient Maya city in the tenth century.](jpg/el-castillo-pyramid-plaza-toltec-state-yucatan9a9f.jpg)
![Undated photograph of American temperance reformer Carry Nation.](jpg/carry-nation9a9f.jpg)
![Chapman, John: Hannibal](jpg/hannibal-john-chapman-18009a9f.jpg)
![Frances Perkins.](jpg/frances-perkins9a9f.jpg)
![Mesopotamian Religion. Cuneiform tablet in the British Museum, London, England, 7th Century BC, describing the Flood Epic, a deluge story in the Epic of Gilgamesh added as Tablet XI to the ten original tablets of the Gilgamesh Epic by an editor who copied or altered parts of the flood story from the Epic of Atrahasis. (flood tablet, Neo Assyrian, clay tablet)](jpg/flood-tablet-epic-series-gilgamesh-nineveh-british9a9f.jpg)
Spotlight: World War I
The international conflict was virtually unprecedented in the slaughter, carnage, and destruction it caused, embroiling most of Europe along with Russia, the U.S., the Middle East, and other regions. WWI led to the fall of four great imperial dynasties, resulted in the Bolshevik Revolution, and, by destabilizing Europe, laid the groundwork for WWII.
Quizzes
![closeup of ten dollar bill. Alexander Hamilton, money, currency](jpg/closeup-of-ten-dollar-bill9a9f.jpg)
![Flag of France](jpg/flag-france9a9f.jpg)
![Britain's Queen Elizabeth II smiles to the crowd from Buckingham Palace (London, England) balcony at the end of the Platinum Pageant in London on June 5, 2022 as part of Queen Elizabeth II's platinum jubilee celebrations. The curtain comes down on four days of momentous nationwide celebrations to honor Queen Elizabeth II's historic Platinum Jubilee with a day-long pageant lauding the 96 year old monarch's record seven decades on the throne. (British royalty)](jpg/queen-elizabeth-ii-buckingham-palace-platinum-jubilee-london-england-june-5-20229a9f.jpg)
![Civil rights leader Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers a speech to a crowd of approximately 7,000 people on May 17, 1967 at UC Berkeley's Sproul Plaza in Berkeley, California.](jpg/king-speech-at-sproul-plaza-in-berkeley9a9f.jpg)
Videos
![Holi: Explaining the Festival of Colors](jpg/history-and-observance-of-holi-hindu-festival.jpg)
Galleries
![Bamburgh Castle, Berwick-upon-Tweed borough, Northumberland, England.](jpg/bamburgh-castle-berwick-upon-tweed-eng-northumberland.jpg)
Castles
![International flags on soccer balls. Futbol football. Hompepage blog 2009, arts and entertainment, history and society, sports and games athletics soccer world cup](jpg/flags-soccer-balls-futbol-football-arts-blog-2009.jpg)
World Cup
![Queen Elizabeth I, version of the Armada portrait attributed to George Gower, c. 1588. Oil on canvas.](jpg/reign-elizabeth-i-england-elizabethan-age.jpg)
Kings and Queens of Britain
![West front of Notre-Dame de Paris, France; restored by Eugene Viollet-le-Duc during the mid-19th century. (Notre Dame Cathedral, Ile de la Cite, gothic, middle ages)](jpg/notre-dame-de-paris-france.jpg)
Notre-Dame de Paris
![Woman worker at an airplane factory in America. (World War I, aeroplanes, women)](jpg/woman-airplane-factory-women-world-war-i-1918.jpg)
Women of World War I
![Skyscrapers in Singapore](jpg/skyscrapers-singapore.jpg)
Skyscrapers