They were effective and brutal at the same time. They tortured, murdered, raped and stolen. In the civil war in the former Yugoslavia, football fans played an unprecedented role. They were headed by Željko Ražnatović, a Serbian criminal and warlord. On Sunday, May 13, 1990, eleven of the local D
When in late May 1291, the Mamluks Muslims take the fortress of Acre, it was not only the end of the Christian presence in the vicinity of Jerusalem. But for the Knights Templar, those whose main mission was the protection of pilgrims who came to the holy city, it was the beginning of the end of an
If all the liaison officers suddenly disappeared, the Home Army would not have survived even a week without them. Every day they risked their lives carrying reports, weapons, and bad parcels. They performed the most dangerous work in the Polish underground. And today hardly anyone remembers them.
The Old West left its mark on American history as a time of lawlessness, which led to its alternative name, the Wild West. Until the 1920s, American Frontier was a time of complete lawlessness. Robberies on trains, banks and stagecoaches were on the rise, and there were more outlaws than the poli