Expeditions into the unknown have always been associated with great risks. Death lurked at every turn during research expeditions. The fortunes of travelers who did not return were often terrifying. And sometimes ... they seemed to be basically pointless. Sir John Franklin (1786-1847) was a grea
Mary Magdalene is one of the most interesting and at the same time the most misunderstood characters in the Bible. Known in tradition as the converted harlot, she nevertheless became the most faithful disciple of Jesus. Was she the wife of Jesus? A layer of scandal surrounds this. The Scriptures say
The death of Julius Caesar in a painting The death of Julius Caesar it was one of the epochal events in the millenary history of Rome. The dictator, now strongly disliked by most of the members of the Senate, fell pierced by over 40 stabs on the Ides of March in 44 BC Among the conspirator
The Battle of Berlin resulted in a total of 80,000 deaths for the Soviet Army. Due to the impossibility of repatriating the bodies of the fallen, the Soviet Union decided to build different memorials around Berlin for their eternal rest. The Schönholzer Heide memorial houses the moral remains of 13,