German soldiers eagerly enjoyed the services of a luxury brothel in Lyon. They did not know that their moments of pleasure would pay them dearly, because prostitutes deliberately infected them with venereal diseases and drove them into drug addiction. They were commissioned by - according to the Ges
Political, constitutional, economic events. Not to mention the enterprises (and revolutions) of Attila, Justinian, Charlemagne, Frederick II, Gregory VIII . Alongside the high tradition specialist historiography has long recognized the importance of the daily chores of a mass of unknown people
In 1560, a woman was born, hailed by posterity as a bloody monster and suspected of vampirism. Her character has become an inspiration for writers, film screenwriters, musicians, and even computer game developers. Who are we talking about? About the niece of our honorable king, Elizabeth Bathory.
We would say that no war has any sense, but there are some that do not make much more sense than the rest, although I am not very sure how meaningfully - perhaps also meeting - such a sentence stands. Here are five such instances of wars, with men coming to blows for ridiculous reasons, either in