In 1676, Madame de Brinvilliers was sentenced to be beheaded for murdering her father and two brothers. During the torture, she confessed that she was not the only one who was poisoning in Paris. King Louis XIV ordered an investigation in order to clarify the matter. It contributed to the discovery
The small Vatican state was created in 1929 when the Pope Pius XI and dictator Benito Mussolini signed the Lateran Treaty that provided for the Vatican as an independent state and the receipt of compensation for the loss of its territory during German unification and in return, the Catholic Church h
Not only good ideas contributed to the creation of the state of former American slaves in native Africa. It was about ... getting rid of black people from the New World. In return, they were offered their own land. How did they use it? Abolitionist movements promoting the abolition of slavery ap
The Second World War began on September 1, 1939. However, even before the Germans attacked Poland, there was a clash on the Manchurian-Mongolian border that largely determined the outcome of the future global conflict. The whole story began quite inconspicuously. On May 11, 1939, the Mongoli