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Vikings were mentioned in the chronicles and also in legends. Scandinavian warriors - hardened in combat, resistant to severe frosts, experienced in distant, overseas expeditions - aroused fear, but also fascination. What are we really learning about the Viking heritage today? It is known that t
He targeted beasts that took a taste for human flesh. It was his bullets that killed a tigress from Champawat, India with at least 434 victims. No wonder Jim Corbett has gone down in history as a man-eater slayer - and one of the most famous hunters of all time. Jim Corbett was born in British Ind
Her love letters ignite the imagination to this day. She was one of the few rulers to experience marital happiness. Yet her subjects hated her. In her youth, she was considered a pet of the queen, a French agent and an illegitimate daughter. Right? When Ludwika Maria Gonzaga de Nevers left for P
In the ranking of the bloodiest tyrants in history, the chairman of the Chinese Communist Party would certainly be on the podium. His successive major campaigns have cost the lives of tens of millions of people. Why has no one been able to stop him? Mao Zedong, who led the Peoples Republic of Ch