There was no blue blood in her veins. She had no honorable origin or royal fortune. So what did Krystyna Rokiczana stand out for? She was an alluring seductress. And a hostile intelligence agent. You cant put it delicately. In 1356, the King of Poland, Casimir the Great, became a bigamist. And he
Rows of screens and piles of rubbish are nowadays a gloomy everyday life on seaside beaches. 80 years ago the situation did not look any better, although our great-grandparents struggled with slightly different problems. Fighting with nudity, wicker baskets and sunbathing according to instructions -
It was Wojciech Jaruzelski who demanded the introduction of the Soviet Army to Poland to fight Solidarity, and the Soviet Union ruled out any intervention and insisted on the declaration of martial law. One of the most famous Russian historians, Rudolf G. Pichoja, explains what it really was like wi
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