The powers of Charlemagne.

Charles I the Great , called Charlemagne (Carolus Magnus), was King of the Franks from 768 until his death. He expanded the various Frankish kingdoms into an Empire incorporating much of Western and Central Europe. He conquered Italy and was crowned Emperor by Pope Leo III on December 25, 800 in Rome.
His "powers" were based on the sword Durandarte (which he would later give to his nephew Roldán ):

Charlemagne sealed his decrees with the knob of Durandarte saying:
-These are the orders I give.
Branding the sword with which he had sealed them, he added:
-And here is the sword with which that I will enforce them if necessary.

The Bayeux tapestry, a medieval comic

A husband's ingenuity in the face of impending royal horns.

Hannibal is at the gates!
Something will have this genius of strategy, perhaps the greatest military talent of all antiquity and the enemy par excellence of Rome, that just the mention of his name horrified generations of Romans and that to scare their children, as today would be the bogeyman,” they would say:“Hannibal ad p
The pattern of the eunuchs.
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The Camino de Santiago to the Japanese
The Japanese have a bad reputation for being copycats. Always appropriating other peoples ideas or inventions and then modifying and improving them on your own. But that sambenito is quite unfair. For example, if we say that in Japan they have an indigenous version of the Camino de Santiago, there w
Blackbeard, the myth of piracy
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