There are a bunch of historical figures who have gone spectacularly, with one small sub-category standing out in particular. Were talking about those who in one way or another made the macabre prophecy of when they would leave - or how they would leave - and fell in. People of literature, music an
A family that shook the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth for years. A world of power struggles, glamor and scandals, where both madmen and losers, but also great politicians and patriots played their roles. You will find the turbulent fate of this famous family in Radziwiłła, which are the prize in ou
Leonidas at Thermopylae is a small painting (about twenty by twenty eight centimeters) finished in 1814 by the painter David and exhibited at the Louvre Museum. It celebrates a great battle which was the scene of the heroic death of Leonidas I and his 1,400 men, including 300 Spartans, in their atte
1945. The Third Reich fell, but the USSR grew stronger. He could threaten Britain unless she hit first. This is how the Operation Unthinkable plan was born. The question of whether the Soviet Union could become an enemy of Great Britain began to be considered during the Second World War. The close