Don Alfonso Linares, better known simply as Alferez, is the right-hand man of Crisostomo Ibarra, one of the main protagonists in the novel Noli Me Tángere by José Rizal.
She did not want to give up power during her husbands lifetime or after his death. There can be only one queen, said Jadwiga Kaliska openly. And even as a seventy-year-old woman, she was still shaking Polish politics. Władysław Łokietek was the head of the Polish state. But it was his wife Jadwi
Many Poles would still prefer not to talk about the existence of post-war camps. Discussion about their names - Polish? communist? Stalinist? - is far from being settled. The search for the guilty, however, often draws attention away from the most important - the fate of the prisoners. Do we even kn
Norma Shearer plays Marie Antoinette in the 1938 film of the same name In the video (from youtube.com) which I inserted at the bottom of the post you can see the final scene of the famous film of 1938 Marie Antoinette , that of the execution of the ex queen of France, played by No
In Latin the word Lupa had two meanings. The wolf, literally, but also figuratively the whore. Thus, the wolverine dens of ancient Rome were the workplace of prostituted women. Pompeiis lair is one of the best-known and best-preserved buildings of the ruined city. Most of the women here were slaves