French physicist Nicéphore Niépce is considered one of the inventors of photography, having immortalized views from his window by sensitizing Judean bitumen on tin. Later his compatriot Louis Daguerre invents the first reliable photography process which will be presented to the Academy of Sciences i
A witty image of Lorenzo the Magnificent The following is not just any cooking recipe, as it is suggested by Lorenzo the Magnificent. Evidently the great lord of Florence and our Renaissance also understood gastronomy. Here is what he writes in Canzona de ’cialdoni on how to prepare Tus
Ancient mosaic depicting a chicken. The “Pullum parthicum” is a recipe taken from Apiciuss “De re coquinaria” With his De re coquinaria ( The art of cooking ), Marco Gavio Apicius left us the largest gastronomic recipe book of Roman times and all of antiquity ( see https://www.pilloledisto
Nebelwerfer, called by the insurgents a roaring cow or wardrobe (due to the characteristic whistle / roar) is one of the cruelest weapons used by the Germans during the suppression of the Warsaw Uprising. To this day, it is formidable as its use was devastating for anyone in its vicinity ... Fro