Sparks Commentary

“A Declaration introducing into international relations certain uniform rules with reference to future occupations on the coast of the Afric...

Note: The edition that I’m reviewing here was expanded by Boris Fausto’s son Sergio Fausto, to bring it up to date. The most populous countr...

“The French people solemnly proclaim their attachment to the Rights of Man and the principles of national sovereignty as defined by the Dec...

“ ˹He is˺ Allah! There is no god ˹worthy of worship˺ except Him , the Lord of the Mighty Throne.” – English translation of  The Quran, Surah...

I was once asked whether I covered  world history  on my blog. The answer is a simple “yes.” Here is a sort of table of contents for my ...

A modern series inspired by Kenneth Clark’s “Civilisation” (which aired in 1969) … Before watching this program, I knew next to nothi...

“It shall be lawful for the Queen, with the advice of the Privy Council, to declare by proclamation that, on and after a day therein appoi...

“For thou art an holy people unto the L ORD thy God: the L ORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all ...

“Representing the will of the people of the entire nation, it has formulated the organization law for the Central People's Government ...

“The High Contracting Parties do by the present Charter establish an Organization to be known as the ORGANIZATION OF AFRICAN UNITY . The O...

" ... these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES ; that they are absolved from all allegiance ...

"We, the Japanese people, acting through our duly elected representatives in the National Diet, determined that we shall secure for o...

"Written by a team of pioneering archaeologists and acknowledged experts working at the cutting edge of Egyptology ... " - Th...

"As from the fifteenth day of August, nineteen hundred and forty-seven, two independent Dominions shall be set up in India , to be kn...

"The term 'Near East' is not widely used today. It has survived in a scholarship rooted in the nineteenth century when it was...

"[The Mexican Empire] solemnly declares by means of the Supreme Junta of the Empire that it is a Sovereign nation and independent of...

"That the two Kingdoms of  England and Scotland  shall upon the First day of May which shall be in the year One thousand seven hundre...

"Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts: the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of th...

"It shall be lawful for the Queen, by and with the Advice of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council, to declare by Proclamation ...