Every, even the thinnest textbook of universal history reports that Christopher Columbus discovered America. The date of this event is even given:October 12, 1492. But has what everyone takes for granted really happened? It is said that success has many fathers and failure is an orphan, and this
I have never used such a large bathhouse, King Gustaw Adolf reportedly said after the battle with Hetman Stanisław Koniecpolski. Indeed, the Polish commander became a real terror of the Swedes - the Swedish monarch himself was wounded twice in clashes with him! When in 1626 the Swedes captured R
It was September 23, 1998, when all of Greece was shocked to watch a hostage case live on television. A 27-year-old wanted man from Romania, Sorin Matei, entered the apartment of the Ginaki family, at 4 Niovis Street, in Kato Patisia, and held hostage the four people who were inside at the time. I
A theme for endless legends, rumors and the weirdest stories. The owners of this diamond fell into madness, fell into incomprehensible diseases, were poisoned and murdered. Was it Koh-i-noor who brought them nothing but misfortune? When it comes to the earliest history of Koh-i-noor, or The Moun