On Winston Churchills first day as Prime Minister, Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. It was preceded by Poland and Czechoslovakia. Over the next twelve months, German bombers would pound the country relentlessly, killing 45,000 Britons and destroying two million homes. In The Days That Made Hist
Everyone has heard of the forbidden books index. But how did church censorship work in practice? How were official prohibitions implemented to protect innocent souls from sinful reading? The answers to these questions are not obvious even to historians. Thanks to Izabela Wienceks research, we at lea
I was running out of ideas, I didnt know what to write, so I decided to recycle an old post published on the facebook page a long time ago. For car lovers, I want to tell you about Automobili Del Frate. It is an Italian car company, and you are rightly thinking, but what does this have to do with
Portrait of man with fake mole on cheek. In the 1700s, fake nevi were also used by men Everyone knows that in fake represented one of the most popular beauty accessories in the 1700s , but most believe that it was a complement of exclusively female use (https://www.pilloledistoria.it/1684/stor