Sweets in Ancient Rome. In this Apicius dessert there is also the “garum”, a fish-based sauce Marco Gavio Apicius (25 BC-37 AD), the first great gastronome of antiquity, suggests the following recipe to prepare a dessert: “Toast pine nuts and peeled walnuts; mix with honey, pepper, garum,
Despite the defeat they experienced near Vienna, the Turks still managed to bounce back. King Jan III found out about it, who almost cost his life a dramatic clash with the young and energetic Pasha Kara Mehmed at Parkany. The break-up of the Turkish army near Vienna on September 12, 1683, did not
In 1962, the Cold War was in full swing. The nuclear arsenal of the US and the USSR would be enough to destroy the Earth 20 times! However, the confrontation did not take place, thanks to the decision of one man ... The 1960s in America began in a nervous atmosphere. The specter of an atomic att
Napalm - a weapon as effective as it is cruel - has become one of the most recognizable symbols of the Vietnam War. Its history, however, goes much deeper, to the time of the Second World War. It was then that the mixture of fuel, aluminum and gelling agent first revealed its sinister side. “I