Celebrating New Years Eve. A custom more deadly than Tutankhamens curse, more perverse than the Indians tobacco revenge. Every year it takes a deadly toll. And it could have been otherwise! Did you go overboard again last New Years Eve? First day of the new year wasted? Ibuprom and water without
The last hours of Marie Antoinette in a painting Since the post on Queen Marie Antoinette always have great success and are among the most read of Pills of History, to those already written I add an old article that I did for the site Notizie.it, where I briefly reconstruct the last h
Twelve, seventeen, or maybe just two thousand? How many Germans did the Home Army kill during the fights for the capital? Is it true that they killed civilians and prisoners? On August 1, 1944, about 36,000 people joined the fight for the liberation of the capital. soldiers of the Warsaw Distric
In the common mind, the Romanov dynasty ceased to rule Russia with the abdication of Nicholas II. It turns out, however, that the tsar managed to appoint a successor who ruled ... 24 hours! On March 2 (15), 1917, Emperor Nicholas II renounced his throne in the carriage of his train near Pskov, a