Twenty courses (including gold-battered peas and venison stuffed with live birds), a sea of wine, and the whole seasoned with a sauce of fermented fish guts. It is not surprising that the Romans had to go to the site from time to time during their famous feasts. But was it really so? “In the d
Recent events in Beirut have reminded the world of the Chernobyl disaster. It turns out, however, that many times in history there have been tragic catastrophes caused by carelessness and greed. Here are the 7 most important of them. Greed, neglect and human error - these are the most common cause
She was a full-blooded German, a deeply religious person, apparently she hated falsehood and hypocrisy. After the war, for reasons only known to her, she became an intelligence agent. However, she did not spy for any of the new German states. Unlike her famous colleagues, she never got worked out, m
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