Gynecologist, Gisella Perl (circa 1900 – 1988) risked her life to try to save that of many women during her deportation to Auschwitz, performing thousands of abortions. (Warning:this article deals with torture, extreme abuse, experimentation inflicted on prisoners - especially pregnant - in Auschw
Nobody changed the maps of this world as much as the explorer James Cook. On his great voyages he crossed all oceans and mapped the coasts. A terrible ending The first commander, Charles Clerke, saw the disaster coming, although the natives, paddling in small canoes, are quite peaceful. Very diffe
Deputy of the Third Estate in 1789, he had the Tennis Court oath adopted. He was very influential in the Constituent Assembly. Leader of the monarchians (supporters of an English-style parliamentary monarchy), discouraged by the turn of events, he preferred to emigrate from 1790 to 1801.
Son of Charles dAngoulême and Louise de Savoie, François I succeeded his cousin Louis XII in 1515, whose daughter Claude he married. With the victory of Marignan, François I reconquers the Milanese. The power of Charles V and the threat of the encirclement of the kingdom by the possessions of his ri